Poetic Imitation for "She Walks in Beauty"

She moves in mystery, deep and vast,

The navy waves caress the coast,

Where long sands stretch, in stillness cast

In murmured secrets, haunting ghosts.

At once astir, at once steadfast,

A phantom dance in mist enclosed.

O’er hadal fathoms, glist’ning crests

Where ebbs and flows in kinship be,

The salt-stained gusts in distance nest

In flaring sails that etch the sea.

The deeps that daunt the mightiest

Bring safely home the admiralty.

In lullabies, in hushing words,

Embracing all in blankets blue,

And hearing heart’s aches gone unheard

By others; Mother’s ever-true

And ever-faithful presence stirred

By those who seek her secrets too.