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A LONELY COAST by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: A LONELY COAST, WHERE SEA-GULLS SCREAM FOR WRECKS
Last Line: TILL, WAKING, FOUND 'TWAS ONLY WHAT I DREAMED.
Subject(s): SEASHORE; BEACH; COAST; SHORE;

A lonely coast, where sea-gulls scream for wrecks
That never come; its desolate sides
Last visited, a hundred years ago,
By one drowned man who wandered with the tides;
There I went mad, and with those birds I screamed,
Till, waking, found 'twas only what I dreamed.



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