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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.




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  • Louisa May Alcott
    The Mother Moon
    by Louisa May Alcott
    THE moon upon the wide sea Placidly looks down, Smiling with her mild face, Though the ocean frown. Clouds may dim her brightness, But soon they pass away, And she shines out, unaltered,