The University of Virginia Edition of The Works of Stephen Crane Volume X : Poems and Literary Remains |
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[XXXVIII. The ocean said to me once]
The ocean said to me once,
“Look!
“Yonder on the shore
“Is a woman, weeping.
“I have watched her.
“Go you and tell her this,—
“Her lover I have laid
“In cool green hall.
“There is wealth of golden sand
“And pillars, coral-red;
“Two white fish stand guard at his bier.
“Look!
“Yonder on the shore
“Is a woman, weeping.
“I have watched her.
“Go you and tell her this,—
“Her lover I have laid
“In cool green hall.
“There is wealth of golden sand
“And pillars, coral-red;
“Two white fish stand guard at his bier.
“Tell her this
“And more,—
“That the king of the seas
“Weeps too, old, helpless man.
“The bustling fates
“Heap his hands with corpses
“Until he stands like a child
“With surplus of toys.”
“And more,—
“That the king of the seas
“Weeps too, old, helpless man.
“The bustling fates
“Heap his hands with corpses
“Until he stands like a child
“With surplus of toys.”
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