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Weekend on the shore 11/7/2005 6:45:47 AM
We were away for the weekend to an old camp on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia.I found two old tombstones and these poems are the result. Luke Let Us Not Forget
To Those who've gone before
AS I SIT HERE ON THIS UNKNOWN BAY SUN A SHIMMERING GOLDEN SPHERE THIS QUIET SELDOM TRAVELED WAY.
SPARKLING SEAWEED ALONG THE SHORE CHISELED ROCKS FROM IONS PAST GLISTENING WATERS I ADORE TRANQUILITY I HOPE WILL LAST.
AN EAGLE CIRCLES ON WESTWARD WIND TWO LOONS OFF SHORE A HANDSOME PAIR THIS PLACE TO LET MY SPIRIT MEND SALT WATER BREEZE BLOWS MY HAIR.
THIS OLD HOMESTEAD ON THE SHORE FIELDS RUN TO OCEANS EDGE CHILDREN PLAYED IN DAYS BEFORE DOVE IN WATERS OFF THIS LEDGE.
TREES NOW GROW WHERE SHEEP ONCE GRAZED OLD ROCKS LEFT WHERE A HOUSE WAS RAISED HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED,I AM AMAZED SUCH HARDY PEOPLE TO BE PRAISED.
A WAY OF LIFE ON THE ATLANTIC SHORE FROM BOUNTIFUL OCEAN FISH WERE CAUGHT THAT WAY OF LIFE IS NO MORE THE OCEAN BARREN FISH ARE NAUGHT.
LET'S NOT FORGET THOSE DAYS OF YORE COMMUNITIES THRIVED ALONG THE SHORE THE WORK WAS HARD AND MOST WERE POOR AND DEATH CAME EARLY AT YOUR DOOR.
BY LUKE
AUGUST 2ND 2005
by Luke
Author's Comments: "I FOUND TWO TOMBSTONES AT THIS SITE ONE SAID"HERE SHE LIES BY THE SEA SO DEEP HER SPIRIT FREE TO NO LONGER WEEP" SHE WAS 42 YRS OLD BURIED IN 1920.BESIDE HER HER SON 7 YRS OLD WAS BURIED IN 1917."
