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Why does the sea moan evermore? / Shut out from heaven it makes its moan. / It frets against the boundary shore; / All earth's full rivers cannot fill / The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
Sheer miracles of loveliness / Lie hid in its unlooked-on bed: / Anemones, salt, passionless, / Blow flower-like; just enough alive / To blow and multiply and thrive.
Shells quaint with curve, or spot, or spike, / Encrusted live things argus-eyed, / All fair alike, yet all unlike, / Are born without a pang, and die / Without a pang, -- and so pass by.