Tide

Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.

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    Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
    While the world’s tide is bearing me along;
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    Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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    To keep our abstract verse from being dry.
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