“I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes.”

—  Sara Teasdale

"I Would Live in Your Love"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

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American writer and poet 1884–1933

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