“Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow ripple
Breaks, blindly, against the shore.”

"Seagulls on the Serpentine"
Songs of Shadow-of-a-leaf and other poems (1924)

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English poet 1880–1958

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Breaks, blindly, against the shore.”