This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem is about a sea of roses, and it describes the sea as a place where love is as deep and wide as the sea. In this poem, the sea is symbolized by the sea roses, which Longfellow planted in honor of his grandmother. He tells the story of how his grandmother planted the roses and how he lost all information about her when he left her. He says that he believes that one day, he will reunite with his grandmother, and that the heavens will reward her for her hard work.