“Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.”

St. 1
The Forsaken Merman (1849)
Context: Come, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below.
Now my brothers call from the bay;
Now the great winds shoreward blow;
Now the salt tides seaward flow;
Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Children dear, let us away.
This way, this way!

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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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