Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in m… - Hannah Flagg Gould

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Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

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Hannah Flagg Gould (September 3, 1789 – September 5 1865) was a poet, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Flagg began writing poetry in her Thirties.

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Alternative Names: Hannah F. Gould • H. F. Gould

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For little he does, in these dull autumn hours,
At height'ning of beauty, or laughing with flowers.

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