But now I know it is the earth And not the water that is unstable, For at every rise and fall of the pellucid tide It seems as though it were the shingle And the waving forest of sea-growth That moves—and not the water!


A Lap of Honour (1967). Diamond Body

Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes

But now I know it is the earth And not the water that is unstable, For at every rise and fall of the pellucid tide It seems as though it were the...

But now I know it is the earth And not the water that is unstable, For at every rise and fall of the pellucid tide It seems as though it were the...

But now I know it is the earth And not the water that is unstable, For at every rise and fall of the pellucid tide It seems as though it were the...

But now I know it is the earth And not the water that is unstable, For at every rise and fall of the pellucid tide It seems as though it were the...