...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. 'The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and...roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, clown the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another...

...then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. ... ***** The sea of faith Was once too, at the full, and round earth's shore D Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing...

...listens to the mournful sound of the ebb-tide on Dover Beach, this is the thought that it awakens : The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. In the stern, cold cloisters of the Grande Chartreuse, with its austere and devoted brotherhood, he...

...when be can thus lament the failure of the old : " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, ami round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." The lack of any definite end or aim in life seems also to haunt him, and in giving voice to this mood...

...flow Of human misery : we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay, like the folds of a bright girdle, furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the...

...the calm sea, watches the full tide and the moon that " lies fair upon the Straits," and thinks, " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle f url'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Betreating, to the breath Of the...

...being " the idle singer of an empty day " ; nor with Matthew Arnold hear jocundly faith's ocean, and " Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating,...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world," and say, love is enough : nor, with Swinburne, could he console himself with sensuous beauty, Hellenic...

...be born, With nowhere yet to lay my head, Like them, on earth I wait forlorn." Or with this : — " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled : But now I only hear Its melancholy long withdrawing roar." Indeed, Arnold's distinguishing...

...brought Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Eetreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world....

...feelings of non-Christian students seem a little mixed. In Mr. Matthew Arnold they are merely sad : — " The sea of Faith Was once too at the full ; and round Earth's shoro Lay, like the folds of a bright girdle, furled : But now I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing...