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HIGH HEART by ALINE MURRAY KILMER

First Line: THE SEA THAT I WATCH FROM MY WINDOW
Last Line: WHEN YOU COME HOME.
Subject(s): SEA; OCEAN;

The sea that I watch from my window
Is gray and white;
I see it toss in the darkness
All the night.
My soul swoops down to sorrow
As the sea-gulls dip,
And all my love flies after
Your lonely ship.

Yet I am not despairing;
Though we must part,
Nothing can be too bitter
For my high heart;
All in the dreary midnight,
Watching the flying foam,
I wait for a golden morning
When you come home.



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