Sea Standing
When we are old and full of wishful thinking,
will we remember this?
Sunday afternoon and Dublin-hot
we linger over the black rocks at Dun Laoghaire.
Sealit, we watch the boats slide past to Wales
paddling the summer-cold water.
And looking across at you I wondered:
when we are old and full of wishful thinking,
will we remember this?
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 327 |
| Words | 59 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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