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Sea Calm

Langston Hughes

How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.




Quotes of the Day

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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    A Parting Guest
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    What delightful hosts are they -- Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight