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FISHERMEN (THE JERSEY COAST), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They stand as still as shapes in bronze
Last Line: The crush and roar of modern life—and christ in galilee!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Jersey; Seashore; Anglers; Beach; Coast; Shore


THEY stand as still as shapes in bronze, great-bodied, pipe in mouth;
A slant-stacked steamer trails the sky with smoke, against the South;
Far out they watch the toiling tides that lift in crests of foam,
Alert to glimpse the rippled stir where schools of bluefish roam;
They seldom move, they seldom break the fancy of the eye
That makes them seem a common part of earth and sea and sky. ...
A space beyond, the bathing folk along a sandstrip run,
And pasty-visaged city groups slouch shaded from the sun,—
And, of a sudden, as in dream, on either hand I see
The crush and roar of modern life—and Christ in Galilee!





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