Name in Sand



One day I wrote her name upon the strand;
But came the waves, and washed it away:
Again, I wrote it with a second hand;
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

-Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599),
One Day I Wrote Her Name
upon the Strand







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