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I lived down the ocean when
I was young in Virginia,

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and my parents used to
take us to the beach.

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The number of times that I
have dreamt about the ocean

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figured largely in our lives.

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This is called, When
Wishes Were Fishes.

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Beyond your knees,
that sailor's glass

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boiled the kelp smelling sea.

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There, the wind galloped
in the tough grass

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at the edge of the
world, and our Sunday

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wish at the edge of
the world and sea,

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was to bottle a
dredged up jellyfish.

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Seaweed and dead
fish, fish and shells,

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were lure in the grave
of the sandy bowl.

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The glistening arms
of swimmers struck

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sparks from the sun-charged
air, and the whole orphanage

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came down on the
sand in a truck,

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and old ladies were
there for the cure.

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All that clapping and
smacking of gulls,

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and that slapping
of tide on rock,

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our senses twined on
the seas, gut string,

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and the mother's
cries, and the animals

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that barked and charged.

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And the young ladies in a
flock who ran the soprano scale

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and jumped the waves in a ring.

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