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SOULS AND RAIN-DROPS by SIDNEY LANIER

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First Line: LIGHT RAIN-DROPS FALL AND WRINKLE THE SEA
Last Line: WERE 'T NOT FOR THE WRINKLES IN LIFE'S FACE.

LIGHT rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,
Then vanish, and die utterly.
One would not know that rain-drops fell
If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell.
So souls come down and wrinkle life
And vanish in the flesh-sea strife.
One might not know that souls had place
Were 't not for the wrinkles in life's face.



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