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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MYSTERY, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI
First Line: What do you hide, o treacherous smooth ocean
Last Line: Or is there only some sad, strange sea-weed?
Subject(s): Life
First Line: What do you hide, o treacherous smooth ocean
Last Line: Or is there only some sad, strange sea-weed?
Subject(s): Life
WHAT do you hide, O treacherous smooth ocean,
Beneath your breast where vagrant breezes roam,
Kissing the hollowed waves to sweet emotion
That breaks into a thousand flakes of foam?
Have you some treasure 'neath your bosom sleeping,
Upon the shores ere long to lie decreed?
Is there some perfect pearl within your keeping,
Or is there only some sad, strange sea-weed?
O sea of Life! O Future, that is bidden
To hold your secret like the heaven's floor,
Have you some treasure in your bosom hidden,
To fling erelong upon my sun-stained shore?
I watch and wonder as long billows, creeping,
Divide and nearer roll with noiseless speed.
Is there some perfect pearl within your keeping,
Or is there only some sad, strange sea-weed?
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