Sunday 5 September 2010

VERSES BY STEPHEN REYNOLDS (2)

THE FISHER FATHER AND CHILD (The Child)


And the boy –

Like delicate dawn to the sunset was the child to his father –
A sturdy slight figure, as straight as the mast,
A grey and more gently coloured figure, glancing round with the father’s self-same gestures softened and with childish trustful sea-blue eyes;
Pattering with naked feet on the stern-sheets, and hauling the fish with a wary cat-like motion….

O splendid and beautiful pair!
O man of the sea! O child growing up to the sea,’tis the likeness of your souls,
And I know that as I love you, I am loving also the sea –
O splendid and beautiful portions of the sea!



From: 'A Poor Man's House'' Stephen Reynolds, 1908

Part 1 (The Father)

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