Inland
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
Track 1
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One salt taste of the sea once more?
Of water sucking the hollow ledges,
People that build their houses inland,
What do they long for, as I long for
People the waves have not awakened,
People that buy a plot of ground
Neither a window nor a door,
Screaming to God for death by drowning,—
Beating the narrow walls, and finding
Starting up in my inland bed,
Shaped like a house, and build a house there,
Spanking the boats at the harbour’s head,
One salt smell of the sea once more?
Tons of water striking the shore,—
Far from the sea-board, far from the sound
What do they long for, as I long for,—
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