“Look, still is the sea and still are the breezes; but the pain in my heart is not still.”
Theocritus ancient greek poet
Idyll 2, lines 38-39
Idylls
“The hills look over on the South,
And Southward dreams the sea;
And with the sea-breeze hand in hand,
Came innocence and she.”
Daisy http://www.bartleby.com/103/26.html (1893), st. 2.
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Came innocence…" by Francis Thompson?
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