she slept beside the evening sea

All my life I dreamed of spending a week at the ocean with my bed overlooking the sea.

Not only did this dream come true, but the house we rented was directly beside the summer home we stayed in as children. My cousin still owns the cottage next door, and I find it ironical that the first quotation I discovered was written by a man with our family name!

 

“I walked beside the evening sea

and dreamed a dream that could not be;

the waves that plunged along the shore said only:

"Dreamer, dream no more!”

~ George William Curtis ~

 

“Nothing lasts forever,

not the mountains nor the sea,

but the times we've had together

will always be with me.”

~ anon ~

 

“I am part of the sea and stars

And the winds of the South and North;

Of mountains and Moon and Mars,

And the ages sent me forth!”

~ anon ~

 

“The fish in the water are silent,

the animals on the earth are noisy,

the bird in the air is singing.

But man has in him the silence of the sea,

the noise of the earth

and the music of the air.”

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

 

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