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“The Swimmer’s Death” by
Edwin Muir
🏴
(
15 May 1887
–
3 Jan 1959
)
He lay outstretched upon the sunny wave,
That turned and broke into Eternity.
The light showed nothing but a glassy grave
Among the trackless tumuli of the sea.
Then over his buried brow and eyes and lips
From every side flocked in the homing ships.