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A DEAD CALM AND MIST (TOWARDS EVENING) by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: THE SLOW HEAVE OF THE SLEEPING SEA
Last Line: SAVE JUST A DREAM OF AMETHYST.
Subject(s): DREAMS; EVENING; SEA; WIND; NIGHTMARES; SUNSET; TWILIGHT; OCEAN;
The slow heave of the sleeping sea
With pulse-like motion swells and falls,
And drowsily a stray gull calls
The very wail of melancholy;
All day the moveless mist has slept
On the same bosom east winds swept:

No breath of change in the grey mist,
Save just a dream of amethyst.



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