And in flood’s desert one saw a creature, Perhaps a man, swim toward a vanished hill That once he knew; another rowed a boat Over the acres of his plough; another sailed The fields that were to be his harvest, Over the roofs of his sea-buried home. Another caught fish from the floating branches Of the tallest elms; ships’ anchors dropping In grass-grown meadows and swift keels sped Over green hill and vineyard. Where yesterday Thin-legged goats stepped on their way to pasture, The bearded seal dozed through the deep sea hours, And mermaids drifting with new-opened eyes Gazed into cities that
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The flood from the Book of Genesis without Noah but with mermaids. This is insane!
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