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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FREEDOM, by VIRGINIA CLAY HAMILTON
First Line: The clean dawn wind and the hard white beach
Last Line: For freedom's a lonely thing.
Subject(s): Freedom; Wellesley College; Liberty
First Line: The clean dawn wind and the hard white beach
Last Line: For freedom's a lonely thing.
Subject(s): Freedom; Wellesley College; Liberty
THE clean dawn wind and the hard white beach
And the touch and go of the restless sea
Taught me something -- or tried to teach
And that was -- "Be thou free."
But I went back to the waking house
And made the fire and the kettle sing
And shut the door and bolted it close,
For Freedom's a lonely thing.
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