Lily and the Prince of Spray

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Excerpt from Lily and the Prince of Spray: A Drama of the Sea in Five Cantos, and Other Poems Lily and the Prince of Spray This is the story of Lily, a varied and strange recitation That was told by the waves to the sand bar, who told it again to the shingle, And I heard them discussing the matter - the shells and the quartz stones and others, In voices attuned to the sea, as I lay in the sunshine and listened. If you read, you will find it is written in changes of style and of metre, For rarely a shell or a stone is exactly the size of some other. The voices of sea things are strange, from the boom-ety boom of the conch shell, To the wee little song of the tide that lies in the bosom of winkle. But I know all their language quite well, I love the great breast of the ocean, For it taught me the tongues that they speak, the singings, the sighings and laughter, And this is the story of Lily, I heard as I lay in the sunshine, Begun by the winkle at noon, to its cousins that lay in the shingle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.