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First Line: Waves are the sea's white daughters
Last Line: But I must stay at home
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery


Waves are the sea's white daughters,
And raindrops the children of rain,
But why for my shimmering body
Have I a mother like Pain?

Night is the mother of stars,
And wind the mother of foam,
The world is brimming with beauty,
But I must stay at home.





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