Are you akin to such as these?

The little waves they flash and rise,

And lisp this answer wonderingly,

With laughter in their glancing eyes:

“They are the sea—we are the sea.”

O small, spent waves of surging time,

Which break and fall upon life’s shore

With soft and intermittent chime,

A moment seen, then seen no more,

How are you linked, if linked you be,