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TO PETRONELLA AT SEA by FORD MADOX FORD

Poem Explanation

First Line: TO THE REMOTEST VERGES OF THE SEA
Subject(s): LOVE;

To the remotest verges of the sea,
Unto ends of night following day
There shall no refuge be for you and me
Who haste away.
Beyond the furthest stretches of the foam
Beyond the last horizon of the sky
For you and me: for you and me, no home
Waits, quietly.
But in the deep remoteness of the heart,
In the deep secret chambers of the mind,
Hidden, unchanging, secret, set apart -
Beyond the whitest surges of the foam,
Beyond the limitless verges of the wind,
In the deep, tender, quiet places of the heart:
Lo! you, enshrined




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