Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 323
shining sandsIn the morning gleam as the tide wentdown,And the women are weeping and wringingtheir handsFor those who will never come home to thetown;For men must work and women must weep,—And the sooner its over, the sooner to sleep,—And good-bye to the bar and its moaning. The sea ! the sea ! the… … I m on the sea! I m on the sea! I am where I would ever be ; With the blue above, and the blue below, And silence wheresoeer I go; If a storm should come and awake the deep, What matter? / shall ride and sleep. * Born, June 12, 1819 ; died, 1875. t Born, about 1790; died, October 5, 1874. The two…
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