The poem itself presents family love through Dantean images of distance, dark sea, hope, and ascent, treating the children as multiple bearers of a single light.
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"...a week in the old poet's country of light. Learning the sea between us. There it was. Learning the sea between us. Is a...."
"...of you hold. The way a man once. Crossed this. Dark sea. To his son. With nothing to give. But I see you. Climb...."
"the sea parted were dead before the jordan saw those who had inherited its lands and those who did not suffer trials until the..."
"pleasing siren who in mid -sea leads mariners astray there's so much delight in hearing me i turned aside ulysses although he had longed..."
"...shouted all of it, for so it seemed down to its sea -bathed shore. His question threaded so the needle's eye of my desire..."
"...virtue labors, so the fetus may move and feel like a sea sponge. And then it starts to organize the powers that seed it...."
"...this hand of blood no rather will my hand the multitudinous seas incarnadine making the green one red i mean it's extraordinary speech and..."
"...think you can say about Herman Melville that his years at sea were the thing that mattered to him much more than his much..."
"...in of sorrows, you ship without a Helmsman Helmsman and harsh seas, no queen of provinces, but off bordellos. That noble soul had said...."
"...of Moldau, carries to the Elbe, and the Elbe to the sea, named Autocar. In swaddling bands he was more valiant than his son,..."
"...neglected before he asked me, When did you arrive across long seas beneath this mountainside? I told him, Oh, by way of the sad..."
"...the sun was more than two hours high, it was the sea to which I turned my eyes. My lord said, have no fear,..."
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