Ralph Waldo Emerson: I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had lef

I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

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