Low-Tide

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Low-Tide was published in Millay's collection, Second April (1921).
Ebb Tide
Low Tide Rocks at St. Baldred's Cradle, Tyninghame
 

     These wet rocks where the tide has been,
       Barnacled white and weeded brown
     And slimed beneath to a beautiful green,
       These wet rocks where the tide went down
     Will show again when the tide is high
       Faint and perilous, far from shore,
     No place to dream, but a place to die,—
       The bottom of the sea once more.
     There was a child that wandered through
       A giant's empty house all day,—
     House full of wonderful things and new,
       But no fit place for a child to play.
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