III

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Flight

I envied your sweet slumber, all night so calm you lay,

The night was calm, the morn is calm, and like another day;

But I could wish yon moaning sea would rise and burst the shore,

And such a whirlwind blow these woods, as never blew before.

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