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1884–1933

The Net

Sara Teasdale

I made you many and many a song, Yet never one told all you are — It was as though a net of words Were flung to catch a star;

It was as though I curved my hand And dipped sea-water eagerly, Only to find it lost the blue Dark splendor of the sea.

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