The Mariner - Read by LAH

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mariner by E. Pauline Johnson, red for LibriVox dot
Org by the Anne Howlet, Wreck and stray and castaway
Swinburne once more adrift, or dappling sea and broad lagoon,

(00:21):
or frowning cliff and yellow dune. The long warm lights
of afternoon, like jewel dustings sifted once more awake, I
dreamed an hour of port and quay, of anchorage not
meant for me. The sea, the sea, the hungry sea,

(00:43):
came rolling up the brake once more afloat, the billows
on my moorings pressed. They drove me from my moment's rest,
And now a portless sea. I breast and shelterless my
boat once more away. The harbor lights are growing dim,

(01:05):
the shore is but a purple rim. The sea outstretches
gray and grim, away, away away once more at sea,
the old old sea I used to sail, the battling tide,
the blowing gale, the waves with ceaseless underwail, the life

(01:27):
that used to be. End of poem. This recording is
in the public domain.