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Caribbean Quarterly
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March 1, 2008
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We too shall come down to the sea,
Past the gay green gardens ofthe heart's munificence,
Past the lichened pathway where the rust
Stains the stone and the forked tree stands desolate,
Down to the sands
Where the shattered bones of leviathan
Are strewn with coral splinters and the wrack of lands.
We shall come down to the sea again
Whence we once crawled landward
To rear our gardens and palaces and temples;
For always there has lingered, echoing the ancient memory
Within the bone,
Persistent, the song of the sea-shell:
And naught shall silence that insistent monotone.
We shall return. See,
On the bright sands her waves have strewn
Golden coronals to welcome us!
Crowned as kings ...