“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems

“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”

Footsteps on the sands of time” is a common expression referring to the passage of time. In the second stanza a similar image appears. What does this image suggest has happened to the traveler?

Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Asked by Noni C #690824 on 11/27/2018 2:29 PM

Last updated by Aslan on 11/27/2018 4:44 PM

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Answered by Aslan on 11/27/2018 4:44 PM

I think that, like all living things, the traveller dies.

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