Mablethorpe, by Alfred Tennyson

Mablethorpe

How often, when a child I lay reclined,
I took delight in this locality!
Here stood the infant Ilion of the mind,
And here the Grecian ships did seem to be.
And here again I come and only find
The drain-cut levels of the marshy lea,
Gray sand banks and pale sunsetsdreary wind,
Dim shores, dense rains, and heavy clouded sea.

poems.one - Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson