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This poem was written by Grace Melvin,
on June 8, 1939. It is from one of a folio of original issues of The Savary
Pudding, a broadside created by Vancouver School of Art
summer students on Savary Island.
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The sound of the sea swells through me Gathering me into its sighing, Making me one with all other sounds - Echoes from far islands - From people far away - From salty depths unprobed - And beauty never seen - The wind - The rain - The Sun - The heart of nature throbs and groans with it. The sound of the sea fills me Till I lose all knowing Save the knowing that I am one with it Now it draws me to a whisper - We fade away and die in distant places - Hissing back with new tunes and tellings In our insistent surge - Sucking in - Roaring out - Breathing and weaving together - Voices that have been - are - and are to be - Sighing Moaning Groaning - sound - The sounds of the sea. |