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Stones

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Small yellow stones     That, lifted, through my idle fingers fall     Leaving a score--     And these I toss between the parted lips     Of the lapping sea,     And the sea tosses again with millions more--     Yellow and white stones;     Then drawing back her snaky long waves all,     Leaves the stones     Yellow and white upon the sandy shore....     As they were bones     Yellow and white left on the silent shore     Of an unfoaming far unvisioned Sea.

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"Small yellow stones..."

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