![A Distance From The Sea]()
To Ernest Brace
"And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I wasabout to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying untome, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, andwrite them not." —REVELATIONS, x, 4.
That raft we rigged up, under the water,
Was just the item: when he walked,
With his robes blowing, dark against the sky,
It was as though the unsubstantial waves held up
His slender and inviolate feet. The gulls flew over,
Dropping, crying alone; thin ragged lengths of cloud