Pre-Existence
Barry Cornwall
1787 to 1874
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I laid me down upon the shore
And a little space;
I heard the great waves and roar;
The sun was on my face.
My idle hands and fingers brown
Played the pebbles grey;
The waves came up, the went down,
Must thundering and gay.
pebbles, they were smooth and round
And warm my hands,
Like little people I had found
Sitting among the sands.
The grains of so shining-small
Soft through my fingers ran;
sun shone down upon it all,
And so dream began:
How all of this had before:
How ages far away
I lay some forgotten shore
As here I lie today.
The waves came shining up the sands,
here today they shine;
And in my pre-Pelasgian
The sand was warm and fine.
have forgotten whence I came,
Or what my might be,
Or by what strange and savage
I called that thundering sea.
I know the sun shone down
As still it today,
And in my fingers long and brown
The little pebbles lay.