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1849–1903

XXIV

William Ernest Henley

The full sea rolls and thunders In glory and in glee. O, bury me not in the senseless earth But in the living sea!

Ay, bury me where it surges A thousand miles from shore, And in its brotherly unrest I'll range for evermore.

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XXIV · William Ernest Henley · Poetry Cove