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Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun

When I stand before a marsh I always think about standing in front of the classroom in my high school senior English class and reciting lines from Sidney Lanier's famous poem. We all had to do it. I dreaded it in 1968 but if Mrs. Margaret Curl were still around today, I would thank her. Those lines are still in my memory and it made titling this photo easy.

 

I can see that the little island in the marsh has some interesting trees that I would love to photograph. It is so close but it might as well be a thousand miles away as the marsh grass and soft mud make it totally inaccessible.

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Uploaded on August 20, 2015
Taken on August 19, 2015