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Untitled Dover Beach

Death is the thing with feathered wings Here on these rocky Dover cliffs Against which breaks perpetual wave upon wave Melting away this earth-stone base Atop which rests the sky Sleepwalkers, walking with lead-laden feet They dream only of falling, falling Let us, love, dream of one another Beneath the white gulls crying And the moon-tides dying

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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