The ocean said to me once, <br />"Look! <br />Yonder on the shore <br />Is a woman, weeping. <br />I have watched her. <br />Go you and tell her this -- <br />Her lover I have laid <br />In cool green hall. <br />There is wealth of golden sand <br />And pillars, coral-red; <br />Two white fish stand guard at his bier. <br /> <br />"Tell her this <br />And more -- <br />That the king of the seas <br />Weeps too, old, helpless man. <br />The bustling fates <br />Heap his hands with corpses <br />Until he stands like a child <br />With a surplus of toys."<br /><br />Stephen Crane<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ocean-said-to-me-once/
