If my love were an ocean,

there would be no more land.

If my love were a desert,

you would only see sand.

~ Jay Asher

The next day.....

But Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave
Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm,
E'en Nature's self, so powerful, cannot save
Her own rich gifts from this o'erwhelming harm.

~ Anna Seward  Elegy Written at the Sea-side