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Young Sea
by: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
The sea is never still.
It pounds on the shore
Restless as a young heart,
Hunting.
The sea speaks
And only the stormy hearts
Know what it says:
It is the face
of a rough mother speaking.
The sea is young.
One storm cleans all the hoar
And loosens the
age
of it.
I hear it laughing, reckless.
They
love
the sea,
Men who ride on it
And know they will die
Under the salt of it.
Let only the young come,
Says the sea.
Let them kiss my face
And hear me.
I am the last word
And I tell
Where storms and stars come from.
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poems by Carl Sandburg