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An architect's sketch book (1912)

Peabody, Robert Swain, 1845-1917 · Boston, Houghton Mifflin · leaf 188

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rface of the sea asof the heaven that arches over it. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain,Man marks the earth with ruin, — his controlStops with the shore. The waves sing the same song that they did when the boundlessdeep was gathered into one place and God saw that it was good.The sea… … By the Sea 95 horizon bounds the waves that encircle us. The golden path-way to the sun starts from our feet. What might be an over-powering loneliness is lightly but constantly broken. Now aschool of porpoises rises near us and the surface of the sea isbroken by their gleaming bodies. Then with…

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