The Sea Hold

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The Sea Hold

Eri — 6/10/2010 8:37:40 PM (archived)

The Sea Hold by Carl Sandburg

THE SEA is large.
The sea hold on a leg of land in the Chesapeake hugs an early sunset and a last morning star over the oyster beds and the late clam boats of lonely men.
Five white houses on a half-mile strip of land â€¦ five white dice rolled from a tube.

Not so long ago â€¦ the sea was largeâ€¦
And to-day the sea has lost nothing â€¦ it keeps all.

I am a loon about the sea.
I make so many sea songs, I cry so many sea cries, I forget so many sea songs and sea cries.

I am a loon about the sea.
So are five men I had a fish fry with once in a tar-paper shack trembling in a sand storm.

The sea knows more about them than they know themselves.
They know only how the sea hugs and will not let go.

The sea is large.
The sea must know more than any of us.

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A thought experiment from Peter Singer - TB - 6/8/2010 4:16:30 PM
- The Golden Rule - Jody - 6/9/2010 9:48:27 PM
  - Golden thought - Eri - 6/10/2010 12:37:36 AM
- Right! - TB - 6/9/2010 9:03:55 PM
- Re: Re: Re: Darwinism - ER - 6/9/2010 7:48:50 PM
- Re: Shifting gears but along the same line.. - ER - 6/9/2010 7:44:15 PM
- Shifting gears but along the same line.. - Jody - 6/9/2010 7:11:27 PM
- Re: Re: Darwinism - TB - 6/9/2010 5:57:53 PM
- Re: Darwinism - ER - 6/9/2010 5:42:32 PM
- Darwinism - TB - 6/9/2010 5:17:08 PM
- Re: You might be making this too complicated. - ER - 6/9/2010 1:38:33 AM
- This whole thing is crap. - Eri - 6/9/2010 12:58:14 AM
- You might be making this too complicated. - TB - 6/9/2010 12:44:23 AM
- Not every one is a materialist ER. - Jody - 6/8/2010 10:03:15 PM
  - *sigh*...lowering my head and shaking it* - Jody - 6/10/2010 12:23:34 AM
    - Point(s) taken... - ER - 6/10/2010 2:12:01 PM
    - Yoo Hoo...ER... - Jody - 6/10/2010 12:32:33 PM
      - Thankfully... - mcfly - 6/10/2010 5:12:17 PM
        
        LOL! - Eri - 6/11/2010 2:38:20 AM
    - Spare us the feminist harangues, ladies... - ER - 6/10/2010 12:10:04 PM
      - Is it getting hot in here? - Jody - 6/10/2010 4:36:43 PM
      - A trophy pair... - er - 6/10/2010 2:53:32 PM
        
        Belay my last! - er - 6/10/2010 3:22:03 PM
        
        Tales of Brave Ulysses - er - 6/10/2010 7:43:55 PM
        
        Over the Sea our Galleys Went - Eri - 6/10/2010 8:40:19 PM
        
        The Sea Hold - Eri - 6/10/2010 8:37:40 PM
        
        Yo ho hum and a bottle of rum. - Eri - 6/10/2010 5:39:25 PM
        
        Avast, ye matey! - Eri - 6/10/2010 3:01:42 PM
      - Re: Spare us the feminist harangues, ladies... - Eri - 6/10/2010 2:26:51 PM
    - That's certain better than... - Eri - 6/10/2010 11:59:41 AM
  - Re: By your own admission - ER - 6/9/2010 7:55:58 PM
  - heh...very good Rob...and on that note... - Jody - 6/9/2010 4:27:30 PM
    - Eri Eri Eri.. - Jody - 6/9/2010 6:30:32 PM
    - Well, that's my opinion... - Eri - 6/9/2010 6:08:03 PM
  - The difference is, you followed your biological clock. - RobVG - 6/9/2010 4:15:27 PM
  - By your own admission - Jody - 6/9/2010 4:17:26 AM
  - Re: Not every one is a materialist ER. - ER - 6/8/2010 10:25:18 PM
- Wow... - Jody - 6/8/2010 9:59:07 PM
- Re: Re: navel-gazing - er - 6/8/2010 6:45:09 PM
  - I'm glad my parents didn't think that way. - Eri - 6/8/2010 7:11:14 PM
- Re: navel-gazing - TB - 6/8/2010 5:54:09 PM
  - Will you still need me, will you still feed me... - ER - 6/8/2010 9:40:25 PM
    - I'm broke. - Eri - 6/9/2010 12:59:17 AM
  - Well, I'm 63... - Eri - 6/8/2010 7:12:20 PM
- Typical philozawifigal navel-gazing BS. - er - 6/8/2010 5:43:54 PM

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