Second April / by Edna St. Vincent Millay [electronic resource]

LOW-TIDE

THESE wet rocks where the tide has been, Barnacled white and weeded brown And slimed beneath to a beautiful green, These wet rocks where the tide went down Will show again when the tide is high Faint and perilous, far from shore, No place to dream, but a place to die, — The bottom of the sea once more. There was a child that wandered throughA giant's empty house all day, — House full of wonderful things and new, But no fit place for a child to play.