Seaward, white gleaming thro’ the busy scud

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772 to 1834

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Seaward, white gleaming thro’ the busy scud
With arching Wings, the sea mew o’er my head
Posts on, as bent on speed, now passaging
Edges the stiffer Breeze, now, yielding, drifts,
Now floats upon the air, and sends from far
A wildly-wailing Note.