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LONGING by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: O WOULD I WERE THE COOL WIND THAT'S BLOWING FROM THE SEA
Last Line: THE GREY SILENCE, THE GREY WAVES, THE GREY WASTES OF THE SEA.
Subject(s): LONGING; LOVE; SEA; SOLITUDE; WIND; OCEAN; LONELINESS;

O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea,
Each loneliest valley I would search till I should come to thee.

In the dew on the grass is your name, dear, i' the leaf on the tree—
O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea.

O would I were the cool wind that's blowing far from me—
The grey silence, the grey waves, the grey wastes of the sea.



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