Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CASTLES IN THE SAND, by KATHARINE LIDDELL


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CASTLES IN THE SAND, by                    
First Line: We built them upon the shining sand
Last Line: Their castles on the sand.
Subject(s): Hope; Optimism


We built them upon the shining sand,
Looking over the infinite sea,
And the light that was never on sea or land
Glowed warm on our masonry.

Towers and moat and a garden long
And a wandering sea-wall there,
We built to the lilt of a laughing song
In the dreamlit summer air.

But the tide swept up, as tides will sweep,
With steady resistless flood,
And there's never a ripple on all the deep
To tell where our castles stood.

Fools were we, doubtless, to build them here
On the shifting, wave-beat strand,
But they are happy fools who rear
Their castles on the sand.





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