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ILLUSTRATIONS
From photographs taken near Brunswick, Georgia, where the poet
derived his inspiration for the Hymns of the Marshes
| Look how the grace of the sea doth go About and about through the intricate channels that flow Here and there, Everywhere, |
Frontispiece |
| In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. |
FACING PAGE 4 |
| My gossip, the owl,—is it thou That out of the leaves of the low-hanging bough, As I pass to the beach, art stirred? Dumb woods, have ye uttered a bird? |
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| And look where the wild duck sails round the bend of the river,— | 14 |
| And look where a passionate shiver Expectant is bending the blades Of the marsh-grass in serial shimmers and shades,— |
20 |
| Sail on, sail on, fair cousin Cloud: Oh loiter hither from the sea. |
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| Over the monstrous shambling sea, | 42 |
| Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,— |
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