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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY THE SEA-SHORE, ISLE OF MAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Why stand we gazing on the sparkling brine
Last Line: And revelling in long embrace with thee.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man
First Line: Why stand we gazing on the sparkling brine
Last Line: And revelling in long embrace with thee.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man
WHY stand we gazing on the sparkling Brine,
With wonder smit by its transparency,
And all-enraptured with its purity? --
Because the unstained, the clear, the crystalline,
Have ever in them something of benign;
Whether in gem, in water, or in sky,
A sleeping infant's brow, or wakeful eye
Of a young maiden, only not divine.
Scarcely the hand forbears to dip its palm
For beverage drawn as from a mountain-well;
Temptation centres in the liquid Calm;
Our daily raiment seems no obstacle
To instantaneous plunging in, deep Sea!
And revelling in long embrace with thee.
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