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I AM A SEA SHELL, by                    
First Line: Put your ear to my lips and listen
Last Line: I am a sea shell.
Subject(s): Life; Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology


Put your ear to my lips and listen—
I am a sea shell.
Through me throbs the swelling tide of life;
Cries of new-born babes and wails of dying millions
Echo in the empty walls of my being.
Through me speaks the voice of the world,
Indistinct, indistinguishable.
Hear, and you will know the secret of all things:
The mysteries of life and death,
The rise and fall of nations,
Planets moving in fiery orbits,
And never-ending time,
Which to me are as nothing.
Hark! Put your ear to my lips and listen!
I am a sea shell.





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