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OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 32 by ARTHUR W. UPSON

First Line: HE IS NO LOVER OF THE SEA WHO LOSES
Last Line: WHERE THE HILLS TIRE AND THE ROUGH PATHWAY BRUISES.
Subject(s): MELODIES; MUSIC & MUSICIANS; VOICES;

He is no lover of the sea who loses
Sound of her voices, inland wandering.
Still should her old melodious mystery spring
Around him, wend he wheresoe'er he chooses;
And so within me rhythmic life refuses
By any other pulse than yours to swing,
Far from your friendship's ocean though I sing
Where the hills tire and the rough pathway bruises.



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