"Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away."
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Hannah Flagg Gould
Hannah Flagg Gould (September 3, 1789 β September 5 1865) was a poet, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Flagg began writing poetry in her Thirties.
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