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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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