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By The Summer Sea

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Sunlight and shrill cicada and the low,     Slow, sleepy kissing of the sea and shore,     And rumor of the wind. The morning wore     A sullen face of fog that lifted slow,     Letting her eyes gleam through of grayest glow;     Wearing a look like that which once she wore     When, Gloucesterward from Dogtown there, they bore     Some old witchwife with many a gibe and blow.     But now the day has put off every care,     And sits at peace beside the smiling sea,     Dreaming bright dreams with lazy-lidded eyes:     One is a castle, precipiced in air,     And one a golden galleons can it be     'Tis but the cloudworld of the sunset skies?

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