Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Shells
I wiped away the weeds and foam,
I fetched my sea-born treasures home;
But the poor unsightly, noisome things
Had left their beauty on the shore,
With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Emerson.—Poems: Each and All.