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Annisquam	A
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Old days old ways old homes beside the sea	B
Old gardens with old fashioned flowers aflame	A
Poppy petunia and many a name	A
Of many a flower of fragrant pedigree	B
Old hills that glow with blue and barberry	B
And rocks and pines that stand on guard the same	A
Immutable as when the Pilgrim came	A
And here laid firm foundations of the Free	B
The sunlight makes the dim dunes hills of snow	C
And every vessel's sail a twinkling wing	D
Glancing the violet ocean far away	E
The world is full of color and of glow	C
A mighty canvas whereon God doth fling	D
The flawless picture of a perfect day	E
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II	F
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'The Highlands ' Annisquam	A
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Here from the heights among the rocks and pines	G
The sea and shore seem some tremendous page	H
Of some vast book great with our heritage	I
Breathing the splendor of majestic lines	G
Yonder the dunes speak silver yonder shines	G
The ocean's sapphire word there gray with age	H
The granite writes its lesson strong and sage	H
And there the surf its rhythmic passage signs	G
The winds that sweep the page that interlude	J
Its majesty with music and the tides	K
That roll their thunder in that period	L
Its mighty rhetoric deep and dream imbued	J
Are what it seems to say of what abides	K
Of what's eternal and of what is God	M
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III	F
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Storm At Annisquam	A
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The sun sinks scarlet as a barberry	B
Far off at sea one vessel lifts a sail	N
Hurrying to harbor from the coming gale	N
That banks the west above a choppy sea	B
The sun is gone the fide is flowing free	B
The bay is opaled with wild light and pale	N
The lighthouse spears its flame now through a veil	N
That falls about the sea mysteriously	B
Out there she sits and mutters of her dead	O
Old Ocean of the stalwart and the strong	P
Skipper and fisher whom her arms dragged down	Q
Before her now she sees their ghosts o'erhead	O
As gray as rain their wild wrecks sweep along	P
And all night long lay siege to this old town	Q
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IV	R
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From Cove To Cove	R
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The road leads up a hill through many a brake	S
Blueberry and barberry bay and sassafras	T
By an abandoned quarry where like glass	T
A round pool lies an isolated lake	S
A mirror for what presences that make	S
Their wildwood toilets here The road is grass	T
Gray scarred with stone great bowlders as we pass	T
Slope burly shoulders towards us Cedars shake	S
Wild balsam from their tresses there and here	B
Clasping a glimpse of ocean and of shore	B
In arms of swaying green Below at last	O
Beside the sea with derrick and with pier	B
By heaps of granite noise of drill and bore	B
A Cape Ann town towering with many a mast	O
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V	R
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Pastures By The Sea	R
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Here where the coves indent the shore and fall	U
And fill with ebb and flowing of the tides	K
Whereon some barge rocks or some dory rides	K
By which old orchards bloom or from the wall	U
Pelt every lane with fruit where gardens tall	U
With roses riot swift my gladness glides	K
To that old pasture where the mushroom hides	K
The chicory blooms and Peace sits mid them all	U
Fenced in with rails and rocks its emerald slopes	V
Ribbed with huge granite where the placid cows	W
Tinkle a browsing bell roll to a height	O
Wherefrom the sea bright as adventuring hopes	V
Swept of white sails and plowed of foaming prows	W
Leaps like a Nereid on the ravished sight	O
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VI	R
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The Dunes	X
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Far as the eye can see in domes and spires	Y
Buttress and curve ruins of shifting sand	O
In whose wild making wind and sea took hand	O
The white dunes stretch The wind that never tires	Z
Striving for strange effects that he admires	Y
Changes their form from time to time the land	O
Forever passive to his mad demand	O
And to the sea's who with the wind conspires	Y
Here as on towers of desolate cities bay	E
And wire grass grow wherein no insect cries	Y
Only a bird the swallow of the sea	Y
That homes in sand I hear it far away	E
Crying or is it some lost soul that flies	Y
Above the land ailing unceasingly	U
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VII	R
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By The Summer Sea	Y
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Sunlight and shrill cicada and the low	U
Slow sleepy kissing of the sea and shore	B
And rumor of the wind The morning wore	B
A sullen face of fog that lifted slow	U
Letting her eyes gleam through of grayest glow	U
Wearing a look like that which once she wore	B
When Gloucesterward from Dogtown there they bore	B
Some old witchwife with many a gibe and blow	U
But now the day has put off every care	B
And sits at peace beside the smiling sea	Y
Dreaming bright dreams with lazy lidded eyes	Y
One is a castle precipiced in air	B
And one a golden galleons can it be	Y
'Tis but the cloudworld of the sunset skies	Y

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