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SHORE-SPELL by RICHARD CALLAN

First Line: A SPELL IS WOVEN
Last Line: ONLY THE RUGGED PINE TREES KNOW.
Subject(s): SEASHORE; WIND; BEACH; COAST; SHORE;

A spell is woven
Over the land
Where ocean breezes
Sing through pines,
And rollers pound the sand.

An incantation
Wild and clear,
By master mesmerist
Pronounced,
Constraining all who hear.

A charm that lasts,
Ceaseless, sublime,
Until this world,
A speck in space,
Is blotted out by time.

But what the winds say
When they blow,
Only the rugged pine trees know.



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