I Came From The Sunny Valleys And Sought For The Open Sea, For I Thought In Its Gray Expanses My Peace Would Come To Me. I Came At Last To The Ocean And Found It Wild And Black, And I Cried To The Windless Valleys, "Be Kind And Take Me Back!" But The Thirsty Tide Ran Inland, And The Salt Waves Drank Of Me, And I Who Was Fresh As The Rainfall Am Bitter As The Sea.