Seashells

“I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.”

“She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore;The shells she sells are sea-shells I'm sure.”

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“But I have sinuous shells of pearly hueAnd murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.”

“I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach;Tales of ships.”

“I have seenMysterious union with its native sea.”

“Go gather by the humming seaSin, then, for this is also sooth.”