Low-Tide

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Low-Tide was published in Millay's collection, Second April (1921).

An illustration for the story Low-Tide by the author Edna St. Vincent Millay — Low Tide Rocks, 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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