While listening to the ocean on Cape Cod, I've often been reminded of the cadences of Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach," written in England and first published there in 1867

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Sometimes a scene in nature will evoke a phrase or a poem that I have learned. One of my favorite poets is Robert Frost, and long ago I memorized his "The Sound of Trees." One day the wind in the trees outside my house in Cheney, Washington, reminded me of this poem, and so I filmed the scene and read in the words.