| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1504. When Nature Hath Betrayed the Heart That Loved Her |
| | | By Sophie Jewett (“Ellen Burroughs”) |
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| THE GRAY waves rock against the gray skyline, | |
| And break complaining on the long gray sand, | |
| Here where I sit, who cannot understand | |
| Their voice of pain, nor this dumb pain of mine; | |
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| For I, who thought to fare till my days end, | 5 |
| Armed sorrow-proof in sorrow, having known | |
| How hearts bleed slow when brave lips make no moan, | |
| How Life can torture, how Death may befriend | |
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| When Love entreats him hasten,—even I, | |
| Who feared no human anguish that may be, | 10 |
| I cannot bear the grief of the sea, | |
| I cannot bear the still grief of the sky. | |
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