The Liner

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  The foamy waves are swishing
  As patiently we thud,
  But O the wave of wishing
  That surges in my blood!

  Along the ocean’s rim, now,
  With never-ceasing song,
  I wish that I could swim now
  And shove the boat along.

  My heart is crying, tireless,
  The word it has to say.
  What need have we of wireless
  Who know a better way?

  The slow craft plunges nor’ward
  And welters on the blue:
  My thoughts are floating forward
  And swooping home to you.

  Your magic love is tingling
  In every vein of me,
  And you and I are mingling
  In spite of rolling sea.

  Yet O that I could borrow
  That albatross’s flight!
  To-morrow, Love, to-morrow
  Is our supreme delight.

© John Le Gay Brereton