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JEKYL ISLAND; EBB TIDE by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL

First Line: FADING LIGHT ON A LONELY BEACH
Last Line: AND FRETS THE SILTED SAND.
Subject(s): ISLANDS; SEA; SEASHORE; OCEAN; BEACH; COAST; SHORE;
FADING light on a lonely beach,
A slow out-creeping tide
That leaves to me on sea-etched sands
The ocean's cryptic speech.

Adown the ever broadening strand
Moon-witched waters steal,
And over the dunes a wild wind swoops
And frets the silted sand.



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