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[title] => On Shakespeare Cliff, Dover
[time] => 2009-01-03 09:08:37
[hometext] => Shakespeare Cliff overlooks the English Channel, & on a clear day you can see buildings on the French coast. It was the setting chosen by Shakespeare for Gloucester's attempted suicide in King Lear. My teaching career began at a school close to the edge!
[bodytext] => When the tide's at the full and the spray flies wild And the storm-battered cliffs loom grey, The gulls are flung like litter in the wind Far above the tossing boats in the bay. Now grey-gloved fingers feel from afar, Muffling with a shroud of fear, For the mist's stolen in with a furtive glance At the lighthouse winking on the pier. The sucking of the surf on the shingle shore Rattles like smugglers' bones Stirring in the dark and dreary depths With gales of ghoulish groans. Wrestling waves in a turmoil twist Their heaving muscles in mounds, Then crash to a crescendo of spittle and spray - A rejoicing of ocean sounds! [comments] => 3 [counter] => 226 [topic] => 27 [informant] => MarcusLane [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 15 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => NaturePoetry )
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