James Lister Cuthbertson: At Cape Schanck

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At Cape Schanck

By James Lister Cuthbertson

19th Century

Down to the lighthouse pillar
         The rolling woodland comes,
Gay with the gold of she-oaks
         And the green of the stunted gums,
With the silver-grey of honeysuckle,
         With the wasted bracken red,
With a tuft of softest emerald
         And a cloud-flecked sky o'erhead.

We climbed by ridge and boulder,
         Umber and yellow scarred,
Out to the utmost precipice,
         To the point that was ocean-barred,
Till we looked below on the fastness
         Of the breeding eagle's nest,
And Cape Wollomai opened eastward
         And the Otway on the west.

Over the mirror of azure
         The purple shadows crept,
League upon league of rollers
         Landward evermore swept,
And burst upon gleaming basalt,
         And foamed in cranny and crack,
And mounted in sheets of silver,
         And hurried reluctant back.

And the sea, so calm out yonder,
         Wherever we turned our eyes,
Like the blast of an angel's trumpet
         Rang out to the earth and skies,
Till the reefs and the rocky ramparts
         Throbbed to the giant fray,
And the gullies and jutting headlands
         Were bathed in a misty spray.

Oh, sweet in the distant ranges,
         To the ear of inland men,
Is the ripple of falling water
         In sassafras-haunted glen,
The stir in the ripening cornfield
         That gently rustles and swells,
The wind in the wattle sighing,
         The tinkle of cattle bells.

But best is the voice of ocean,
         That strikes to the heart and brain,
That lulls with its passionate music
         Trouble and grief and pain,
That murmurs the requiem sweetest
         For those who have loved and lost,
And thunders a jubilant anthem
         To brave hearts tempest-tossed.

That takes to its boundless bosom
         The burden of all our care,
That whispers of sorrow vanquished,
         Of hours that may yet be fair,
That tells of a Harbour of Refuge
         Beyond life's stormy straits,
Of an infinite peace that gladdens,
         Of an infinite love that waits.

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