Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The Sound of the sea.

The Sound of the sea - it's the music that you need to listen carefully. This isn't only the background.

The Sound of the sea

The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice out of the silence of the deep,
A sound mysteriously multiplied
As of a cataract from the mountain's side,
Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul;
And inspirations, that we deem our own,
Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing
Of things beyond our reason or control.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow





Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an accomplished American poet. He wrote many well-known pieces in his lifetime, including "Song of hiawatha," "Evangeline," and "Paul Revere's Ride." He was a teacher at Harvard, leaving his mark on New England through the Longfellow House, formerly known as the Craigie House before it was given to him and his wife as a wedding present.
Longfellow was known for writing poetry that was easy to read with a good sense of rhythm. 

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