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Poems

by T. Westwood

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[The infinite sands upon the ocean shore—]

The infinite sands upon the ocean shore—
The countless multitudes of human kind—
The ocean waves, that now cast forth those sands,
Now sweep them back into their viewless depths,
And the swift hours, that as they come and go,
At once bestow and take, create and kill.