The Sea Is Sorrow's Seed

The sea's deep hues of sin-

Blue sorrow

hollow

and hill

And swell on swell move in to spill

Their sentient seed upon the shore's

Dark sill of soil

of fertile greed;

Spill sea to sill

to sprawl,

sweep-hurl

Its froth of wrath and wind-

Impassioned swirl-

sea-riot reach

To find and feed the earth's

Drear want

and sterile need;

Spill sea to sand and seed to sow,

To sprout and grow the fallow land

Till sorrows of

sin verdant vie

And from the surge and from the verge

Spread here

on every hand,

Here sprawl

beneath the sky.

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