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There is a little Bungalow / Perched on a granite ledge, / And at its feet two suitors meet; / (I watch them, and I know) / One waits outside the casement edge; / One paces to and fro.
The Patient Rock speaks not a word; / The Sea goes up and down, / And sings full oft, in cadence soft; / (I listen, and have heard) / Again he wears an angry frown / By jealous passion stirred.
This dawn, the Rock was all aglow; / Far out the mad Sea went; / Beyond the raft, like one gone daft; / (I saw them, and I know) / While radiant and well content / Smiled down the Bungalow.
That was at Dawn; ere day had set, / The Sea with pleading voice / Came back to woo his love anew; / (I saw them when they met) / And now I know not which her choice- / (The Rock's gray face was wet.)