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Until I Saw the Sea

by Lilian Moore

Lilian Moore

Until I saw the sea
I did not know
that wind
could wrinkle water so.

Inever knew
that sun
could splinter a whole sea of blue.

Nor
did I know betore,
a sea breathes in and out
upon a shore.




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