The Golden Rod 47 Wild Roses 48 The Coast Guard Station 49 Keeper of the Light 50 On Chatham Bars 51 The Old Timer’s Lament 52 Revery 53 The Old Hulk 54 The Modernists 55 When the Locusts are In Bloom 57 The Harvest of the Sea 58 Beach Grass 59 The Swamp Heron 61 The Throes of Creation 62 Hog’s Back Church 63 Beyond the Point 66 The Winds of Time 67 To an Aged Willow 68 The Old Woods Road 69 The Poverty Weed 70 The Sweep of the Tides 71 Lost Billingsgate 73 Transformed 74 Haunting Echoes 74 Lost at Sea 75 The Aspen 76 The Song of the Sea Gulls 77 Broken Fragments 78 Workers of Magic 79 My Golden Fleece 80 The Lone Lilac 81 Friendly Lights 82 To My Cherry Blossom 83 Grains of Sand 84 The Funeral Wreath 84 Memory 85 The Stoker 89 Imagination 91 In Wellfleet by the Sea 95 ON MONOMOY Gigantic finger, joint by joint, Thrust out in warning from the land To lurking shoals, along your point We tread a skeleton of sand, Till at the end we seem to be Where all the world dissolves in sea On Monomoy. O’er Stone Horse shoal and Pollock Rip The sullen tides sweep on apace Where many a gallant sailing ship Has found her final resting place; But of the dead - no man may say Till redly dawns the judgment day On Monomoy. For fishermen tell ghastly tales Of wrecks and shuddering moons that mark Red murder done, and spectral hails Of Yo-Hoes keening from the dark! So in the night when breakers moan Fear trails his steps who walks alone On Monomoy. Waif of the seas and old Cape Cod Where Gosnold voyaged long ago, Where bold Champlain in armor trod, What tales the muttering undertow Could Whisper - or the sea birds scream To brooding dune and marsh adream On Monomoy. THE SONG OF THE SEA SHELL