A Sailor's Wife

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Title:     A Sailor's Wife
Author: Cale Young Rice [More Titles by Rice]

Into port when the sun was setting
Rode the ship that bore my love,
Over the breakers wildly fretting,
Under the skies above.

Down to the beach I ran to meet him;
He would come as he had said:
And he came--in a sailor's coffin,
Dead! . . . . . .

O the ships of the sea! the lovers
Torn by them apart!...
The tide has nothing now to tell me,
The breakers break my heart!

[The end]
Cale Young Rice's poem: Sailor's Wife

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