“As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea,
Though by the wind made restless as the wind,
By billows fretted and by rocks confined,
So strong, so deep, so wide my love for thee.”

—  Francis William Bourdillon

"Sonnet II" in Scribner's Monthly Vol. IX (November 1874 - April 1875), p. 359.

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