After the winds there is surcease...

After the winds there is surcease;

Take courage, heart, and be at peace;

The printless beach, all combed and shining,

In beauty lies with its windrow fleece.

Impetuous as a torrent's speed

White horses raced this watery mead,

With manes of chrysoprase aflowing,

Each neighing loud to its neighbour steed.

The wastes that finger pebbly shores,

Unplowed by ship nor cut by oars,

His music wake as sweet as attar,

And flash in light as the heavenly floors.