"What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song?"
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What are the wild Waves saying?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Joseph Edwards Carpenter
Joseph Edwards Carpenter (2 November 1813 – 6 May 1885) was an English playwright and songwriter.
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