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First Line: O sailor, come ashore
Last Line: In the stormy sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Coral


O sailor, come ashore,
What have you brought for me?
Red coral, white coral,
Coral from the sea.

I did not dig it from the ground,
Nor pluck it from a tree;
Feeble insects made it
In the stormy sea.





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