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[Poems by Piatt in] The Hesperian tree

an annual of the Ohio Valley - 1903

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BY THE SEASHORE.


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BY THE SEASHORE.

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ON THE HORIZON.

Two ships stand on the horizon;
Each shows a lighted sail:
One rises out of morning red,
One sinks in twilight pale.
Two ships stand on the horizon,
Faint sail-gleams far at sea,—
One bears away my sweet lost love,
One brings new love to me.

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III.
I LIE ON THE SHORE AND DREAM.

I lie on the shore and dream
The beautiful dream of old,
That lives in my heart, so quick and warm,
And shall haunt it dead and cold.
The waves, low-whispering, crawl
Close to my feet and die;
Wild, strange, and low their murmurs flow;
Oh, weird their death-sweet sigh!
I hear not the storm-vexed roar,—
I hear but the whispers die
In the sea-shell's soul (close-prest to my ear)
From the waves that, dying, sigh.