<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509151" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shell-Music</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">YOU with the shell to your ear,<br>What do you hear,<br>Slim and so white<br>In the moonlight?<br>'Oh, I hear surging and shouting and singing,<br>The sea-folk at market — their little bells ringing,<br>The tall weeds about them, the green world above!<br>Oh, blithe are the pedlars of ribbons and laces,<br>Yet blither and sweeter upon the wide spaces<br>The footfalls of Love!'<br>You with the shell to your ear,<br>What do you hear,<br>Waves at your feet,<br>White and so sweet?<br>'Oh, I hear cooing and kissing and cooing,<br>The sound of sea-folk in their coral groves wooing,<br>The red branches round them, the green world above!<br>Oh, sweet are the songs of the witching sea-daughters,<br>But sweeter, far sweeter, upon the wide waters,<br>The footfalls of Love!'<br>You with the shell to your ear,<br>What do you hear,<br>Large eyes aglow,<br>Forehead of snow?<br>'Oh, I hear shouting and sobbing and sighing,<br>The sounds of the sea-folk in battle-rage vieing,<br>The torn weeds about them, the green world above!<br>The merman may shout as he stumbles and slaughters,<br>But, ever and ever, I hear on the waters<br>The footfalls of Love!'<br>You with the shell to your ear,<br>What do you hear,<br>As you stand there,<br>Pale and so fair?<br>'Oh, as frost on the seaways the foam-spaces glisten;<br>My heart is the shell, to its echoes I listen;<br>Red petals, rose petals around and above!<br>Oh sweeter, far sweeter, than little bells ringing<br>Or market-men shouting, or mermaidens singing,<br>The footfalls of Love!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roderic+Quinn">Roderic Quinn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509151" data-title="Shell-Music de Roderic Quinn" data-description="YOU with the shell to your ear, What do you hear, Slim and so white In the moonlight? 'Oh, I hear surging and shouting and singing, The sea-folk at market — their little bells ringing, The tall weeds about them, the green world above! Oh, blithe..."></div> </div> </div>

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