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Shell of the bright sea-waves!
What is it, that we hear in thy sad moan?
Is this unceasing music all thine own?
Lute of the ocean-caves!
Or does some spirit dwell
In the deep windings of thy chambers dim,
Breathing forever, in its mournful hymn,
Of ocean’s anthem swell?
—Amelia Welby, “To a Sea-Shell,” 1845
And heard that instant in an unk nown tongue,
Which yet I understood, articulate sounds,
A loud prophetic blast of harmony;
An Ode, in passion uttered, which foretold
Destruction to the children of the e arth
By deluge, now at hand.
—William Wordsworth, The Prelude or, Growth of a Poe
Mind, Book Fifth,
1799–18057
CONSIDER the sea’s listless chime:
Time’s self it is, made audible,—
The murmur of the earth’s own shell.
Secret continuance sublime
Is the sea’s end: our sight may pass
No furlong farther. Since time was,
This sound hath told the lapse of time.
No quiet, which is de ath’s,—it hath
The mournfulness of ancient life,
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