Apostrophe To The Ocean

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society where none intrudes,

by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

I love not man the less, but Nature more,

From these our interviews, in which I steal

From all I may be, or have been before,

To mingle with the universe, and feel

What I can ne'er express, yet can not all conceal.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!

Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;

Man marks the earth with ruin, his control ..."

xo,

Christina

Photo by Mario Testino and found at the Doll Factory.
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