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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GUARDIAN DEEPS, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS Poet's Biography
First Line: The past is like the sea, for both do hold
Last Line: Yet irrecoverable, in our past.
Subject(s): Past
First Line: The past is like the sea, for both do hold
Last Line: Yet irrecoverable, in our past.
Subject(s): Past
The past is like the sea, for both do hold
Our sunken treasure, all our ships gone down.
The riches men take with them when they drown,
Jasper and jade and ivory, coins untold,
The sea's green depths forever shall enfold,
While to and fro the sands wash, fine and brown,
Discovering, covering, torque and ring and crown.
We see, but may not reach, their gleaming gold.
Even so that other, widest of the seas,
Receives our treasure -- faces, memories, days
And silenced voices -- and though over these
Our daily life its slow deposit lays
Of shifting thought, they shall be guarded fast,
Yet irrecoverable, in our past.
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