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SEA DREAMS by EDWARD BLISS REED

First Line: SAILOR, SAILOR, WHY MUST YOU GO
Last Line: PLAYING WITH DREAMS BY THE SEA.
Subject(s): SAILING & SAILORS; SEA VOYAGES; TIDES; WATER;

Sailor, sailor, why must you go
Out past the rim of the sky?
Charts have not told the quaint lands I behold
From this gray rock where I lie.

Hunter, hunter, what do you seek
Climbing the mountain side?
No game is there like the wild thoughts I snare
Watching the turn of the tide.

Fisherman, fisherman, drag in your nets;
Come from the perilous seas.
My dream nets hold strange fish, blue and gold,
Here where I lie at ease.

Sailor and fisherman drift down the sky,
Woods hide the hunter from me;
So fisherman, hunter, and sailor am I,
Playing with dreams by the sea.



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