“Oh,you who read some song that I have sung,
\nWhat know you of the soul from whence it sprung?
\nDost dream the poet ever speaks aloud
\nHis secret thought unto the listening crowd?
\nGo take the murmuring sea-shell from the shore:
\nYou have the shape, the color and no more.
\nIt tells not one of those vast mysteries
\nThat lie beneath the surface of the seas.
\nOur songs are shells, cast out by waves of thought;
\nHere, take them at your pleasure; but think not
\nYou’ve seen beneath the surface of the waves,
\nWhere lie our shipwrecks and our coral caves.”
\n Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
\nIslander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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