Why does the sea moan evermore? <br />Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, <br />It frets against the boundary shore; <br />All earth's full rivers cannot fill <br />The sea, that drinking thirsteth still. <br /> <br />Sheer miracles of loveliness <br />Lie hid in its unlooked-on bed: <br />Anemones, salt, passionless, <br />Blow flower-like; just enough alive <br />To blow and multiply and thrive. <br /> <br />Shells quaint with curve, or spot, or spike, <br />Encrusted live things argus-eyed, <br />All fair alike, yet all unlike, <br />Are born without a pang, and die <br />Without a pang, and so pass by.<br /><br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/by-the-sea/
