Quote#Solitude
Alone I walked on the ocean strand
Quote byHannah Flagg Gould · 1788–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "A Name In the Sand".
English (original)
Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.
— Hannah Flagg Gould
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