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Rivers To The Sea

Sara Teasdale

But what of her whose heart is troubled by it,
The mother who would soothe and set him free,
Fearing the song’s storm-shaken ecstasy—
Oh, as the moon that has no power to quiet
The strong wind-driven sea.
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From Rivers to the Sea | 1915
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