Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CONSOLATION, by HAZEL REESE COLLINS


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CONSOLATION, by                    
First Line: I traced your name in sand beside the sea
Last Line: "his name is traced so deeply on your heart."
Subject(s): Consolation; Sympathy; Empathy


I traced your name in sand beside the sea
Where restless waves were breaking on the shore;
I watched a ship depart, a sea gull soar
In undirected course, while memory
Went soaring back to happy days when we
Together listened to the ocean's roar.
And then a cruel breaker came and tore
Your name away -- and danced and laughed with glee.

The moon looked on with sympathetic face
And sent its soft rays falling round me there;
They whispered, "Though you two are far apart,
The storms and tides and waves cannot erase
The outline of the letters written where
His name is traced so deeply on your heart."





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