MEETING
(By Robert Browning)

The gray sea, and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves, that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed in the slushy sand.

Then mile of warm, sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross, till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And a blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, though its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts, beating each to each