Page:Poems, now first collected, Stedman, 1897.djvu/218

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THE CARIB SEA

No presence east or west,—
Only the stars—the restless wondering sea
Bearing us back, from foam-tipped crest to crest,
Toward the one small part ourselves inherit
Of this lone darkling world—and call our home.

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