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SONNET ON TYRE: 2, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked again - I saw a lonely shore
Last Line: He might not deem this shore the shore he sought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary


I looked again -- I saw a lonely shore;
A rock amid the waters, and a waste
Of trackless sand: I heard the bleak sea's roar,
And winds that rose and fell with gusty haste.
There was one scathed tree, by storm defaced,
Round which the sea-birds wheeled with screaming cry.
Ere long came on a traveller, slowly paced:
Now east, then west, he turn'd with curious eye,
Like one perplexed with an uncertainty.
A while he looked upon the sea, -- and then
Upon a book as if it might supply
The thing he lack'd: -- he read and gazed again --
Yet as if unbelief so on him wrought,
He might not deem this shore the shore he sought.





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