The New York herald., 1921-07-03
The Glamour of Bermuda.

reefs,
The reflection on the white paint of the
deck ceiling is the pallid blueish-
green
OF veneer OF phosphorus
u-rHg HAMILTON wHARF.
Dazzling sun-glare
After sober sea colors -
White roofs clashtng cymbals
of keen snow against warm deep
Crowds waiting for the steamer to swing
alongside.
Straw hats and fannels;
Parasols bulging cerise and
green agarics:
Sweaters blots of vivid orange,
robin's-egg blue, lavender, GRIM
son, framing delicacy of fresh,
shell-smooth skin at open necks
and throats.
A woman's pink satin sash agleam like
young knights corselet of rose
enamelled steel.
Girls white shoes and silk-stockinged
ANKLES catalpa-blossom
fringe dangling over the concrete
pier-edge where they sit.
And all stippled against background
of negro stevedores lounging Oh
stacked potato barrels
Glossy horse-chestnut brown on raw
In the shadow of the corrugated iron
shed roof.
rII-IsIAND VIEW
From the high lighthouse lantern and
gallery on Glbbs's HILL
Tho island prospect to the east
Over Southampton, Warwick and Paget
parishes
And Grace, Darrell, Burt and Hinson
islands in Great Sound.
With the houses of cleaning white coral
stone strewing the dark green of
the vesting foliage,
Is like a rush of vaster mldocean bill
lows,
F1ecked with sun-smitten crests and
mottlings of gale-born foam.
v-rHE SOUTH SHORE
A walk over low hill ridges of Hamil-
ton Island, and emergence above
the open Atlantic
Thalassa!
Opal and indigo of the mighty ocean
span,
Rolling in unpunctuated orotundity
southwardly to Venezuela,
To Hatteras in the sun-silvered west.
And past Madeira's green asterisk east
wardly to the vast period Of
Africa's Moroccan shoulder.
While along this jewel-bright Bermu-
dian coast the restless play OF
surf whitens on far-strewn reefs.
The stormed ''frst-line trenches" Of
this island citadel,
And nearer, seethes over fiat, complex
curved atol shapes of rock
The Boilers
Great level topped. maze patterned
molar teeth Of coral stun,
The very grinders of the Labyrintho-
don't.
Brown as sequoia stumps,
And through what geologic ages slucing
this same foamy wash Of exquis-
ite. shattered turquoise sea-
v.-THE ANGEL FISH.
1. seems strange
That In the deep Bermuda cave pool
overhung with sun checkering
trees. and ringed with coral rock,
And clear as some great crystal of blue
black tourmaline-
Underneath the rabble of hungry brown
grouper fish.
With their red-gilled mouths ever yawn-
ing for scraps Of bread that vis-
itors throw in,
And scrambling over one another In
their greed until the water boils !;
And underneath also the orb-shelled,
greenish-gray turtles navigating
with deprecatlng happers.
Yes. far below. and yielding only rare
glimpses through the limpid water
lens
OF their oblong FURNISHED bodies reful-
gent with sheen of intense cleo
trio blue,
And tapering to the strange twin fla
ments Of jonquil yellow stream
ing from the body angles above
and below the caudal I'm
Swim the gorgeous angel fsh.
Strange, and yet even fish angels have
some selfrespect,
And IL they cannot escape the common
ruck Of things in lucent air over
head. like higher angels.
They must swim to this profound re-
versed heaven of aqueous indigo,
To fash past the stolid turtles. and
gulping groupers
This thrilling up-glirting splendors OF
their azure and golden comet
forms.
ELIOT WHITE.