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GIGHA by WILLIAM SYDNEY GRAHAM

First Line: THAT FIREWOOD PALE WITH SALT AND BURNING GREEN
Last Line: THE SUN WITH LONG LEGS WADES INTO THE SEA.
Subject(s): DROWNING; SEA; OCEAN;
That firewood pale with salt and burning green
Outfloats its men who waved with a sound of
drowning
Their saltcut hands over mazes of this rough bay.

Quietly this morning beside the subsided herds
Of water I walk. The children wade the shallows.
The sun with long legs wades into the sea.


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