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“Memory of Cape Cod” by Edna St. Vincent Millay 🇺🇸 (22 Feb 1892 – 19 Oct 1950)
The wind in the ash-tree sounds like surf on the shore at Truro.
I will shut my eyes … hush, be still with your silly bleating, sheep on Shillingstone Hill …
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They said: Come along! They said: Leave your pebbles on the sand and come along, it’s long after sunset!
The mosquitoes will be thick in the pine-woods along by Long Nook, the wind’s died down!
They said: Leave your pebbles on the sand, and your shells, too, and come along, we’ll find you another beach like the beach at Truro.
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Let me listen to wind in the ash … it sounds like surf on the shore.