Lines 1–8: What lines might be stated this way in modern English?: “You airy spirits leave no footprints on the sand as you chase the waves that come ashore.”

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Lines 1–8: What lines might be stated this way in modern English?: “You airy spirits leave no footprints on the sand as you chase the waves that come ashore.”

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"And ye that on sands with printless foot/ Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him/ When he comes back

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