The Mirage by Nathan Haskell Dole. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1922. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922.

The Mirage

Nathan Haskell Dole (1852–1935)


ACROSS the Bay are low-lying cliffs,
Where stand fishermen’s cottages:
I can barely distinguish them with the naked eye.
But to-day the cliffs are lifted, escarpt,
Perpendicular, mysterious, inaccessible,	5
And those sordid dwellings have become
The magnificent fortified castles of Sea-kings.