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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECOMPENSE, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL
First Line: I never have had a look at the sea
Last Line: And of seas, they are a part.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: I never have had a look at the sea
Last Line: And of seas, they are a part.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
I NEVER have had a look at the sea,
I who would love it so.
I never have watched from the surf-drenched shore
The brave ships come and go.
I do not know how the silent tides
Unfailingly ebb and flow.
But God, who is wise to His children's need,
Gives me the wide, low plain.
He gives me the wondrous, whispering grass,
The kildee's sweet refrain,
And my reed-fringed pools are myriad seas,
After the last long rain.
I never have been where the mountains stand,
Majestic, aloof, apart, —
But nightly, the infinite, star-crowned heights
Speak to my waiting heart,
And mine are the winds that are mountain-born,
And of seas, they are a part.
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