A Poet's Wife

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I saw a tract of ocean locked in-land Within a field's embrace-- The very sea! Afar it fled the strand And gave the seasons chase, And met the night alone, the tempest spanned, Saw sunrise face to face. O Poet, more than ocean, lonelier! In inaccessible rest And storm remote, thou, sea of thoughts, dost stir, Scattered through east to west,-- Now, while thou closest with the kiss of her Who locks thee to her breast.

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