Sea-beauty!
stretch'd and basking!
One side thy inland ocean laving,
broad, with copious commerce,
steamers, sails,
And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce
or gentle—mighty hulls
dark-gliding in the distance.
Isle of sweet brooks of drinking- water—healthy
air and soil!
Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!
(Paumanok 613)
Jayne's Hill, Long Island,
where Whitman used to walk.
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