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“Eel-Grass” by
Edna St. Vincent Millay
🇺🇸
(
22 Feb 1892
–
19 Oct 1950
)
No matter what I say,
All that I really love
Is the rain that flattens on the bay,
And the eel-grass in the cove;
The jingle-shells that lie and bleach
At the tide-line, and the trace
Of higher tides along the beach:
Nothing in this place.