Question

Wind song analysis by gabriel setoun

Answer 1

Answer:

O WINDS that blow across the sea,

— What is the story that you bring?

Leaves clap their hands on every tree

— And birds about their branches sing.

You sing to flowers and trees and birds

— Your sea-songs over all the land.

Could you not stay and whisper words

— A little child might understand?

The roses nod to hear you sing;

— But though I listen all the day,

You never tell me anything

— Of father's ship so far away.

Its masts are taller than the trees;

— Its sails are silver in the sun;

There's not a ship upon the seas

— So beautiful as father's one.

With wings spread out it flies so fast

— It leaves the waves all white with foam.

Just whisper to me, blowing past,

— If you have seen it sailing home.

I feel your breath upon my cheek,

— And in my hair, and on my brow.

Dear winds, if you could only speak,

— I know that you would tell me now.

My father's coming home, you'd say,

— With precious presents, one, two, three;

A shawl for mother, beads for May,

— And eggs and shells for Rob and me.

The winds sing songs where'er they roam;

— The leaves all clap their little hands;

For father's ship is coming home

— With wondrous things from foreign lands.