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Bliss Carman (1861-1929)

A Sea Child


              1The lover of child Marjory
              2     Had one white hour of life brim full;
              3Now the old nurse, the rocking sea,
              4     Hath him to lull.

              5The daughter of child Marjory
              6     Hath in her veins, to beat and run,
              7The glad indomitable sea,
              8     The strong white sun.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics (New York: C. L. Webster, 1893), p. 55. B-11 7495 Fisher Library.
First publication date: 1893
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/1/26

Composition date: 1889
Rhyme: abab


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