But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue... Shake one, and i… - Walter Savage Landor

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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue...
Shake one, and it awakens; then apply
Its polished lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes,
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor (January 30 1775 – September 17 1864) was an English prose-writer on themes drawn from literary history, a verse-dramatist, and a poet.

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Wearers of rings and chains!
Pray do not take the pains To set me right.
In vain my faults ye quote;
I write as others wrote On Sunium’s hight.

Little men in lofty places, who throw long shadows, because our sun is setting.

Stand close around, ye Stygian set,
with Dirce in the boat conveyed,
Lest Charon, seeing her, forget,
That he is old and she a shade.

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