For your sweet sake : poems / by James E. McGirt [electronic text]

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McGirt, James E. (James Ephraim)

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Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co.

1906

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TELL ME, DEEP OCEAN.

 Tell me, deep ocean, why not be still, Why not this surging cease, Why shouldst thou sing this mournful sound, And why not hold thy peace? 

 Is it a tale of love you sing, Tell me, oh mighty deep; What some poor sailor bade thee bring, Just as he sank to sleep? 

 If so, I yearn to know thy song, Pray, make it known, oh wave; I had a lover, brave and strong, Who met a sailor's grave. 

 I yearn to know his parting words, Were they not told to thee? If so, I pray thee make them known, Pray tell, were they of me? 