The Last Post Before The Sea

There she would come every night at the last post before the sea her shadow stealing the starlight she crooned her lover a lullaby! the waves breaking the craggy shore they would be coming nightlong keen to know what's in store if he would be drawn by her song! atop the post he waited alone if ever a ship came that way faithfully flashing his earthly beacon streaking the sea's pathway! she sang in the hope her notes would rise with the winds up there to reach him though he wouldn't see her he would surmise all her heart's yearning all her dream! but his eyes only caught the waves' roll fathomed the distant horizon a ship must pass to soothe his soul to fulfill his waiting long alone! he never knew the girl on the shore she sang him a loving lullaby up there alone behind closed door his love he lent out to the sea!