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THE EBBING TIDE by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: A LONG LOW GURGLE DOWN THE STRAND
Last Line: DENSE BLUE BENEATH THE DENSE BLUE SKIES.
Subject(s): SEA; SKY; TIDES; OCEAN;
A long low gurgle down the strand;
The sputtering of the drying wrack!
The tide is slowly ebbing back
With listless murmuring from the land,
And the small waves reluctant flow
Where the broad-bosomed currents go.

The sea has fall'n asleep, and lies
Dense blue beneath the dense blue skies.



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