Memory Of Cape Cod
The wind in the ash-tree sounds like surf on the
shore at Truro.
I will shut my eyes . . . hush, be still with your
silly bleating, sheep on Shillingstone Hill . . .
_They said: Come along! They said: Leave your_
_pebbles on the sand and come along, it’s long after_
_sunset!_
_The mosquitoes will be thick in the pine-woods along_
_by Long Nook, the wind’s died down!_
_They said: Leave your pebbles on the sand, and your_
_shells, too, and come along, we’ll find you another_
_beach like the beach at Truro._
Let me listen to wind in the ash ... it sounds like
surf on the shore.
Edna St. Vincent Millay