"Beside the Sea"


Beside the Sea

Daily the fishers’ sails drift out 
Upon the ocean’s breast, 
But nightly, like white courier doves, 
They all come home to rest. 

Would my lost faith and trust in thee 
Were sails far out the main,  
That in these lonely, sleepless nights 
They might come home again. 



"Beside the Sea" as it appears in Ella Higginson's When the Birds Go North Again (1898).

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