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Rh Far-swooping elbowed Earth! Rich, apple-blossomed
 * Earth!

Smile, for comes!

Prodigal, you have given me love! Therefore I to
 * you give love!

O unspeakable passionate love!

Thruster holding me tight, and that I hold tight! We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride
 * hurt each other.

You Sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess
 * what you mean,

I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me; We must have a turn together—I undress—hurry
 * me out of sight of the land,

Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet—I can repay you.

Sea of stretched ground-swells! Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths! Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and
 * always-ready graves!

Howler and scooper of storms! Capricious and dainty
 * Sea!

I am integral with you—I too am of one phase, and
 * of all phases.

Partaker of influx and efflux—extoller of hate and
 * conciliation,

Extoller of amies, and those that sleep in each others'
 * arms.