Time & Brevity
Nahant
Time & Brevity
All day the waves assailed the rock,
I heard no church-bell chime,
The sea-beat scorns the minster clock
And breaks the glass of Time.
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MLA
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Nahant.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/157/.
Chicago
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Nahant.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/157/.
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