Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

1885

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"Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9188.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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THE VOICE OF THE SEA.

 IN the hush of the autumn night I hear the voice of the sea, In the hush of the autumn night It seems to say to me— Mine are the winds above, Mine are the caves below, Mine are the dead of yesterday And the dead of long ago!   

 And I think of the fleet that sailed From the lovely Gloucester shore, I think of the fleet that sailed And came back nevermore! My eyes are filled with tears, And my heart is numb with woe It seems as if 't were yesterday, And it all was long ago!   