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Not a small source of trouble was his sweetheart's criticism of his verses. "It was the common sight of a pair of lovers walking tongue-tied, you know. I call it 'A Devon Courting." He read the trifle slowly, with that grand, rolling sea-beat of an accent that Elizabeth once loved to hear on the lips of Raleigh and Drake.
The earth hath many shapes and forms Of hill and valley, flower and tree; Fields that the fervid noontide warms, Or Winter's rugged grasp deforms, Or bright with Autumn's golden store; Thou coverest up thy face with storms, Or smilest serene but still thy roar And dashing foam go up to vex the sea-beat shore."
While still across its ocean bound, Shall e'er be borne the truthful sound, Our island home! our island home! We love our island home!" "And yet that isle remaineth, A refuge for the free, As when true-hearted Macy Beheld it from the sea. God bless the sea-beat island! And grant for evermore, That Charity and Freedom dwell, As now, upon the shore!"
It was a hoary pilgrim, travelling on a lone and sea-beat shore, towards a dim and distant goal, and the print of his footsteps on the wave-washed sands, guided others in the same lengthening journey. The scene was before me.
Long afterwards, when Harold the Dauntless entered the castle, the seven shields still hung where Adolf had placed them, each blazoned with its coat of arms: "A wolf North Wales had on his armour coat, And Rhys of Powis-land a couchant stag; Strath Clwyd's strange emblem was a stranded boat; Donald of Galloway's a trotting nag; A corn-sheaf gilt was fertile Lodon's brag; A dudgeon-dagger was by Dunmail worn; Northumbrian Adolf gave a sea-beat crag; Surmounted by a cross, such signs were borne Upon these antique shields, all wasted now and worn."
She determined it should be once of the spells by which she meant to attract Wallace. "If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana; If on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light.
Others had been broken or melted into the forms of jagged cliffs, gigantic arches, lofty caverns, penetrating far away into the interior. Scarcely a shape which is to be found among the butting crags, sea-beat headlands, or mountain summits, in every part of the world, was not there represented in the most brilliant and purest of materials.
It is mine, it is my own darling Rosalie, my pearl, my sunbeam, my flower, my every sweet and precious name in one. But let me not speak of her first, the youngest pilgrim to this sea-beat shore. There are others who claim the precedence.
The earth has many shapes and forms, Of hill and valley, flower and tree; Fields that the fervid noontide warms, Or winter's rugged grasp deforms, Or bright with autumn's golden store; Thou coverest up thy face with storms, Or smilest serene, but still thy roar And dashing foam go up to vex the sea-beat shore: Lunt. We shall now advance the time eight-and-forty hours.
"All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees."
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