Break, Break, Break

This poem comes to mind today

 

Enjoy

 

BREAK, BREAK, BREAK

 

Break, break, break,

    On thy cold gray stones, O sea!

And I would that my tongue could utter

    The thoughts that arise in me.

 

O, well for the fisherman’s boy,

    That he shouts with his sister at play!

O, well for the sailor lad,

    That he sings in his boat on the bay!

 

And the stately ships go on

    To their haven under the hill;

But O for the touch of a vanished hand,

    And the sound of a voice that is still!

 

Break, break, break,

    At the foot of thy crags, O sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead

    Will never come back to me.

 

               — Alfred, Lord Tennyson