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Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand :My name, the year, the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, :And washed my lines away.
Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand :My name, the year, the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, :And washed my lines away.
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- Hannah Flagg Gould (identity unresolved)
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Printed page 566 · quotation 17 · Hannah Flagg Gould · A Name in the Sand.
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