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What Words There Are to Say to You (verse)

Hess, M. Whitcomb

What Words There Are to Say to You What words there are to say to you at leaving Are told by these things better than by me: The quiet noon, the living billows heaving, The sun on the clean...

...What Words There Are to Say to You What words there are to say to you at leaving Are told by these things better than by me: The quiet noon, the living billows heaving, The sun on the clean sea...
...This moment held by them in pure discreteness- Eternity no less...
...M. Whitcomb Hess.ess...
...From finite forms irrevocably fleeing The sea has on her lips no tale of days, But bright her breast and warm where the All-seeing His radiant lightning lays...
...Can thought of mine through fated incompleteness Tell what the sea and sun at noon confess...

Vol. 11 • April 1930 • No. 22


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