Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер)
The New Day. Part 3. Interlude
As melting snow leaves bare the mountain-side In spaces that grow wider and more wide, So melted from the sky the cloudy veil That hid the face of sunrise. Land and ledge And waste of glittering waters sent a glare Back to the smiting sun. The trembling air Lay, sea on sea, along the horizon's edge; And on that upper ocean, clear as glass, The tall ships followed with deep-mirrored sail Like clouds wind-moved that follow and that pass; And on that upper ocean, far and fair, Floated low islands all unseen before. Green grew the ocean shaken through with light, And blue the heavens faint-fleckt with plumy white. Like pennants on the wind, from o'er the rocks The birds whirled seaward in shrill-piping flocks— And through the dawn, as through the shadowy night, The sound of waves that break upon the shore!
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