Dear God, be good to me.
The sea is so
wide and my boat is so small.
Unknown
Earth and sky, sand and sea,
Existing as one entity.
Distinction yields to unity
Restricted by eternity.
Spofford
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| Uncle Tim's Bridge, Wellfleet |
"Come
wander with me",
she said,
"Into
regions yet untrod,
And read what is still unread
In
the manuscript of God."
Longfellow
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| Wellfleet Bay |
O for the sunshine
and motion
of waves in a song!
O joy of my spirit--
Walt Whitman
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| Home is the sailor... |
This be the verse you grave for
me...
Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from the sea...
R. L. Stevenson
Elwood "Kaiser" Taylor was a commercial shellfisherman in
Wellfleet. His gravestone in a South Wellfleet cemetery
shows the
Indian Neck jetty, his fishing boat (a dragger for shellfish), and other
things that meant a lot to him. To this day, commercial
shellfishermen are "awarded" names by their peers. "Chopper"
is a local guy who's won contests all over the east coast for his skill
opening oysters.
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| Rich's Fruit Stand, South Wellfleet |
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall.
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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| And let our ordered lives confess the beauty of Thy peace |
Drop They still dews of quietness,
Till all our stivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.
Breathe through the heats of our desires
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak though the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm.
Whittier 1872
The little roads to happiness, they are not hard to find;
They do not lead to great success, but to a quiet mind.
Unknown
Day
that I loved, Day that I loved, The night is near.
unknown
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