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First Line: When others voice their passion for the sea
Last Line: For I am dumb!
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean


WHEN others voice their passion for the sea
In stirring words, or write it movingly,
I hear ... I read ... I burn with jealousy,
But I am dumb!

My forbears were no captains of the sea—
The hills, the high green hills, encircled me,
But I, I always knew how it would be
When I should come.

I never saw the sea until I grew
To womanhood ... but when I saw its blue
There was no strangeness—deep within, I knew
I was at home!

Others can tell how well they love the sea—
The words, the words, they crowd, they burn in me,
And I know sudden, strange, mad jealousy ...
For I am dumb!





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