Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEACHCOMBER, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS


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BEACHCOMBER, by                    
First Line: Far below the rim of the world
Last Line: That bends its crooked arms to the sea?
Subject(s): Beachcombers


Far below the rim of the world
Where the waters in coral and tan are curled
Where the sun is lazy flowing gold
And love is easily bought and sold—
Where the air is sultry and full of heat
And the black of night is filled with the beat
Of hidden drums in the jungle gloom,
Oh, why should I hear a breaker's boom
And see the spray tossed high and wide
From the rolling surge of a northern tide,
And smell the breath of an apple tree
That bends its crooked arms to the sea?





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