Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер)

On the Bay

THIS watery vague how vast! This misty globe,
Seen from this center where the ferry plies,--
It plies, but seems to poise in middle air,--
Soft gray below gray heavens, and in the west
A rose-gray memory of the sunken sun;
And, where gray water touches grayer sky,
A band of darker gray pricked out in lights,--
A diamond-twinkling circlet bounding all;
And where the statue looms, a quenchless star;
And where the lighthouse, a red, pulsing flame;
While the great bridge its starry diadem
Shows through the gray, itself in grayness lost! 

1. The New Day. Part 3. 19. Thistle-Down
2. The New Day. Part 3. 31. “When the Last Doubt Is Doubted”
3. The New Day. Part 4. 17. “He Knows Not the Path of Duty”
4. The New Day. Part 3. 12. Denial
5. The New Day. Part 4. 4. Song (Not from the whole wide world I chose thee)

Lucy Montgomery (Люси Монтгомери) On the Bay ("When the salt wave laps on the long, dim shore")

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