The poem expresses a longing to return to the beaches and islands of the speaker's birthplace by the sea, after having traveled far away to cities and forests. The speaker, born of the ocean, finds no solace in rivers and yearns to rejoin the sea, passing through pains and sorrows to be refreshed by the bright waves and sea shells, seeing again the fishermen's houses and children on the beaches as a sense of coming home.
The poem expresses a longing to return to the beaches and islands of the speaker's birthplace by the sea, after having traveled far away to cities and forests. The speaker, born of the ocean, finds no solace in rivers and yearns to rejoin the sea, passing through pains and sorrows to be refreshed by the bright waves and sea shells, seeing again the fishermen's houses and children on the beaches as a sense of coming home.
The poem expresses a longing to return to the beaches and islands of the speaker's birthplace by the sea, after having traveled far away to cities and forests. The speaker, born of the ocean, finds no solace in rivers and yearns to rejoin the sea, passing through pains and sorrows to be refreshed by the bright waves and sea shells, seeing again the fishermen's houses and children on the beaches as a sense of coming home.
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