Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The Sea Comments

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I
This is my Sea, that to its circling sands
Reached dimpled hands,
Like a tired child that, lulled to slumber, lay
But yesterday.

II
Now a huge, hungry beast that from its lair
Would leap to tear
And crush and mangle and destroy its prey,
It threats today.

III
This too will cease, my Sea! Cease as a dream!
But wilt thou seem
Ever again, in anger or in play,
As yesterday?
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Ina Coolbrith
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Ina Coolbrith

Ina Coolbrith

Nauvoo, Illinois
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