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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ART'S RIDDLE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, friend, - her skein I also would unravel!
Last Line: Takes and gives back the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Art & Artists
First Line: Come, friend, - her skein I also would unravel!
Last Line: Takes and gives back the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Art & Artists
COME, friend, -- her skein I also would unravel!
Art is not Nature lost in man's control,
But Nature's reminiscences of travel
Across the human soul.
Or 'tis a tidal river, that, each day,
Ebbing and flowing under cliff and tree,
With mutual and eternal interplay
Takes and gives back the sea.
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