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Sunrise along Shore

Athwart the harbor lingers yet     The ashen gleam of breaking day,   And where the guardian cliffs are set     The noiseless shadows steal away;   But all the winnowed eastern sky     Is flushed with many a tender hue,     And spears of light are smiting through   The ranks where huddled sea-mists fly.   Across the ocean, wan and gray,    Gay fleets of golden ripples come,  For at the birth-hour of the day    The roistering, wayward winds are dumb.  The rocks that stretch to meet the tide    Are smitten with a ruddy glow,    And faint reflections come and go  Where fishing boats at anchor ride.  All life leaps out to greet the light —    The shining sea-gulls dive and soar,  The swallows whirl in dizzy flight,    And sandpeeps flit along the shore.  From every purple landward hill    The banners of the morning fly,    But on the headlands, dim and high,  The fishing hamlets slumber still.  One boat alone beyond the bar    Is sailing outward blithe and free,  To carry sturdy hearts afar    Across those wastes of sparkling sea;  Staunchly to seek what may be won    From out the treasures of the deep,    To toil for those at home who sleep  And be the first to greet the sun.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of n…

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