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Low-Tide

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These wet rocks where the tide has been,                  Barnacled white and weeded brown              And slimed beneath to a beautiful green,                  These wet rocks where the tide went down              Will show again when the tide is high                  Faint and perilous, far from shore,              No place to dream, but a place to die,--                  The bottom of the sea once more.              There was a child that wandered through                  A giant's empty house all day,--              House full of wonderful things and new,                  But no fit place for a child to play.

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