Beside The Idle Summer Sea

Beside the idle summer sea,

And in the vacant summer days,

Light Love came fluting down the ways,

Where you were loitering with me.

Who have not welcomed even as we,

That jocund minstrel and his lays

Beside the idle summer sea

And in the vacant summer days?

We listened, we were fancy-free;

And lo! in terror and amaze

We stood alone – alone and gaze

With an implacable memory

Beside the idle summer sea.