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dante gabriel rossetti - the sea limits - gideon wagner lyrics

consider the sea’s listless chime:
time’s self it is, made audible,—
the murmur of the earth’s own sh*ll
secret continuance sublime
is the sea’s end: our sight may pass
no furlong further. since time was
this sound hath told the lapse of time
no quiet, which is death’s,—it hath
the mournfulness of ancient life
enduring always at dull strife
as the world’s heart of rest and wrath
its painful pulse is in the sands
last utterly, the whole sky stands
grey and not known, along its path
listen alone beside the sea
listen alone among the woods;
those voices of twin solitudes
shall have one sound alike to thee:
hark where the murmurs of thronged men
surge and sink back and surge again,—
still the one voice of wave and tree
gather a sh*ll from the strown beach
and listen at its lips: they sigh
the same desire and mystery
the echo of the whole sea’s speech
and all mankind is thus at heart
not anything but what thou art:
and earth, sea, man, are all in each

- gideon wagner lyrics

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