NOTHING BUT SEA AND SKY

(Photo by Sailor Girl, of the same Lighthouse of Cabo da Roca, the westernmost place in Europe, as seen from Guincho, Cascais, near Lisbon)

I stand as on some mighty eagle’s beak,

Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing

Nothing but sea and sky,

The tossing waves, the foam,

The ships in the distance,

The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps

That inbound urge and urge of waves,

Seeking the shores forever.

Walt Whitman