Rime - Once by the Pacific


9\13\2011 Marina Cortez in San Diego Harbor Island 

Once by the Pacific


The shattered water made a misty din.


Great waves looked over others coming in,


And thought of doing something to the shore


That water never did to land before.


The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,


Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.


You could not tell, and yet it looked as if


The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,


The cliff in being backed by continent;


It looked as if a night of dark intent


Was coming, and not only a night, an age.


Someone had better be prepared for rage.


There would be more than ocean-water broken


Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.


Robert Frost

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