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Lyrics of Nature, Art and Love. By Francis William Bourdillon

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Found Drowned

The sigh of the sea-wind wakes not
The dead in the deep:
The lapse of the light wave breaks not
Their dreamless sleep.
Nor the sorrow of those that loved them,
Nor the love of the loved, again
Can make this thing that the light waves fling
A creature of joy and pain.