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By SophieJewett1504 When Nature Hath Betrayed the Heart That Loved Her
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And break complaining on the long gray sand,
Here where I sit, who cannot understand
Their voice of pain, nor this dumb pain of mine;
Armed sorrow-proof in sorrow, having known
How hearts bleed slow when brave lips make no moan,
How Life can torture, how Death may befriend
Who feared no human anguish that may be,
I cannot bear the grief of the sea,
I cannot bear the still grief of the sky.