Poet E.J. Pratt Born
Birth of E.J. Pratt Feb 4, 1882
- Poet Edwin John Pratt was born at Western Bay, Nfld
Pratt, E.J. Poet E.J. Pratt, c 1930* "Clcik for credit and enlarge photo.
The Ground Swell
by E.J. Pratt
Three times we heard it calling with a low,
Insistent note; at ebb-tide on the noon;
And at the hour of dusk, when the red moon
Was rising and the tide was on the flow;
Then, at the hour of midnight once again,
Though we had entered in and shut the door
And drawn the blinds, it crept up from the shore
And smote upon a bedroom window-pane;
Then passed away as some dull pang that grew
Out of the void before Eternity
Had fashioned out an edge for human grief;
Before the winds of God had learned to strew
His harvest-sweepings on a winter sea
To feed the primal hungers of a reef.
The schooner President Coaker s ran aground, January 1924, at Shoe Cove near Cape Ballard (about ninety kilometres south of St. John's). The schooner was completely destroyed and her crew of six were lost at sea. No bodies were ever recovered. "Click" for Photo Credit and enlarge.
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