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SEA-PICTURES; NIGHT NOISES by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: NO VOICE OF CRICKETS WEARING THROUGH THE NIGHT
Last Line: AND GOSSIP ON LOST SHIPS OF LONG AGO.
Subject(s): GRAVES; NIGHT; SOUND; SUMMER; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES; BEDTIME;
NO voice of crickets wearing through the night
From skeins of dew in scented summer fields;
No sleep-time chirp of birds, no tree that yields
A solemn sigh when touched by breezes light.
Instead, a throb of engines in their might,
The scurrying seamen with their weird @3Yo-ho!@1
The creak of ropes, the lapping of sad waves,
That seem to grieve above forgotten graves,
And gossip on lost ships of long ago.



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