<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a Friend's Escape from Drowning off the Norfolk Coast</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Came up that cold sea at Cromer like a running grave<br> Beside him as he struck<br>Wildly towards the shore, but the blackcapped wave<br> Crossed him and swung him back,<br>And he saw his son digging in the castled dirt that could save.<br> Then the farewell rock<br>Rose a last time to his eyes. As he cried out<br> A pawing gag of the sea<br>Smothered his cry and he sank in his own shout<br> Like a dying airman. Then she<br>Deep near her son asleep on the hourglass sand<br> Was awakened by whom<br>Save the Fate who knew that this was the wrong time:<br> And opened her eyes<br>On the death of her son's begetter. Up she flies<br> Into the hydra-headed <br>Grave as he closes his life upon her who for<br> Life has so richly bedded him.<br>But she drove through his drowning like Orpheus and tore<br> Back by his hair<br>Her escaping bridegroom. And on the sand their son<br> Stood laughing where<br>He was almost an orphan. Then the three lay down<br> On that cold sand<br>Each holding the other by a living hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Barker">George Barker</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395836" data-title="On a Friend's Escape from Drowning off the Norfolk Coast de George Barker" data-description="Came up that cold sea at Cromer like a running grave Beside him as he struck Wildly towards the shore, but the blackcapped wave Crossed him and swung him back, And he saw his son digging in the castled dirt that could save. Then the farewell ro..."></div> </div> </div>

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