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The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs;

The salt rock-pools lie still in the sun,

Except for the sidling crab that creeps

Thro the moveless mosses green and dun.

The small gray snail clings everywhere,

For the tide is out; and the sea-weed dries

Its tangled tresses in the warm air,

That seems to ooze from the far blue skies,

Where not a white gull on white wing flies.

The mollusc gleams like a gem amid

The scurf and the clustered green sea-grapes,

Whose trellis is but the rock's bare side,

Whose husbandman but the tide that drapes.

The little sandpiper tilts and picks

His food, on the wet sea-marges hid,

Till sudden a wave comes in and flicks

Him off, then flashes away to bid

Another frighten him – as it did.

O sweet is the world of living things,

And sweet are the mingled sea and shore!

It seems as if I never again

Shall find life ill – as oft before.

As if my days should come as the clouds

Come yonder – and vanish without wings;

As if all sorrow that ever shrouds

My soul and darkly about it clings

Had lost forever its ravenings.

As if I knew with a deeper sense

That good alone is ultimate;

That never an evil wrought of God

Or man came truly out of hate.

That Better springs from the heart of Worse,

As calm from the heaving elements;

That all things born to the Universe

May suffer and perish utterly hence,

But never refute its Innocence.