The Sea’s Dominion
Down along the shoreline the tide
Makes edgy progress, advancing
Like some timid army into unsure ground.
But still the walls of the castles crumble
Under its unwavering assault
Until all the free land is swallowed
Into the sea’s new dominion,
And is lost beneath the waves
Falling over each other as they race
Each eager to throw itself hard against
The resisting rocks, until that cliff falls too
Leaving the land bitten off; chewed
And digested until everything, once more,
Returns to the sea we once escaped from.
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