for their breadth.

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SEA LILY

Reed,

slashed and torn

but doubly rich—

such great heads as yours

drift upon temple-steps,

but you are shattered

in the wind.

Myrtle-bark

is flecked from you,

scales are dashed

from your stem,

sand cuts your petal,

furrows it with hard edge,

like flint

on a bright stone.

Yet though the whole wind

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