II.

Outside of the port ye are moored in, lying

Close from the wind and at ease from the tide,

What sounds come swelling, what notes fall dying

Outside?

They will not cease, they will not abide:

Voices of presage in darkness crying

Pass and return and relapse aside.

Ye see not, but hear ye not wild wings flying

To the future that wakes from the past that died?

Is grief still sleeping, is joy not sighing

Outside?