Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DEEPER THOUGHT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD



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First Line: Below the surface stream, shallow and light
Last Line: The central stream of what we feel indeed.
Variant Title(s): "below The Surface-stream"";
Subject(s): Thought; Thinking


Below the surface-stream, shallow and light,
Of what we say we feel -- below the stream,
As light, of what we think we feel -- there flows
With noiseless current strong, obscure and deep,
The central stream of what we feel indeed.







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