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TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 6. AT THE SEASIDE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These tempers and incalculable hues
Last Line: Corners and holes of soft indwelling night.
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THESE tempers and incalculable hues,
This motion of pretended liberty,
This haste of waves that rush the shore in glee,
As children scramble for their promised dues,—
Whose is this hidden law? this impulse whose,
So bright, so dark, so mutable, so free?
Michal, no chance provokes you to the sea,
But kinship that creating gods infuse.

Me rather forests gladden: underfoot
Grasses and moss and many an unknown shoot
And straying paths and straying brooks delight;
Rough coats of bark; innumerable trees,
Rooted and fixed and helpless; amid these
Corners and holes of soft indwelling night.





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