Great Tides (Poem by Edwin John Dove Pratt)

Great Tides

By Edwin John Dove Pratt

Great Tides! You filled the reaches

    Under the North's wild blow;

Yet could not spare this smaller cup

    Its salter overflow.

Huge hands! You rear our bulwarks up

    With power to none akin;

Yet cannot lift a door-latch up

    That a lad may enter in.