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By The Sea.

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Why does the sea moan evermore?     Shut out from heaven it makes its moan.     It frets against the boundary shore;     All earth's full rivers cannot fill     The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.     Sheer miracles of loveliness     Lie hid in its unlooked-on bed:     Anemones, salt, passionless,     Blow flower-like; just enough alive     To blow and multiply and thrive.     Shells quaint with curve, or spot, or spike,     Encrusted live things argus-eyed,     All fair alike, yet all unlike,     Are born without a pang, and die     Without a pang, - and so pass by.

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