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On old Cape Cod

Chapter 76: Friendly Lights
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About This Book

A collection of lyrical poems that celebrates and mourns a coastal landscape through images of dunes, marshes, sea, winds, birds, flowers, lighthouses, shipwrecks, and changing seasons. The work blends close natural observation with wistful memory and maritime lore, moving between quiet descriptive pieces and dramatic evocations of storms and loss. Recurring motifs such as salt, sand, driftwood, and light bind domestic scenes and seafaring sketches to themes of transience, rootedness, and the consoling, restorative power of place.

Friendly Lights

Welcome greetings through the dark
From the lamp light burning clear
In some lonely home, a spark
Radiating warmth and cheer.
Lighthouse darting from the lea
Flaming lances o’er the foam,
Wandering mariners at sea
You are guiding safely home.
Glow worm on a summer night
Torch within an elfin hand,
Marking by your zig zag flight
Ways obscure to fairy land.
Starry twinkle in the blue
To illumine worlds on high
Far off orb we share with you
Friendliness of earth and sky.