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The Sea Gull a) Soliloquy By Beatrice Lennie

AM the Sea Gull! My life is free and unconfined; in the early morn-

ing I am the first to see the beams of glowing fire touch the
somnolent ocean’s purple ripples. I gaze down in its serene blue at
noon; and later, when the rose tints caress its motley wavelets | rejoice
with the rising waves in their glory. Evening—the steely blue billows
rise higher, the atmosphere is threateningly still. I prepare myself for
the wild revelry which the night will bring. Then—when a cloak so
dark that the stars become frightened and tremble, engulfs the world, |
flap over the foamy-crested, roaring chariots of the sea; I watch the fire-
works of the elements and scream with the wild glory of it all. Por a
time deep purple or murky blackness stares up at me from below, the
white-capped waves boom on the pale sands, while | follow them on
their mad career.

Often on a Summer day | have looked down on the apparently azure
sea, and tried to define its colouring. At times it seems as if each
glistening drop was made up of fire and rainbows. The sun touches the
crests and turns them rosy pink, pale mauve and other transcendant
hues. In the Winter the little rainbows are lost and cool greys, somber
purples, or deep indigos unite to form a garb of mourning. But Spring
is here! I look down from my lofty perch on some ship’s deck to my
beloved; swirling beneath me, jade green, and sparkling ‘neath the touch
of spring sunshine.

| am the Sea Gull! I wander far and near, over the ocean’s horizon;
I see strange sights, awful sights, but | keep my mistress’ secrets and
merely croak my greeting to mankind.

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