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Last Line: But she, forgetting amphitrite %pleads -- 'me'?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 284; Poem: 25


The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea -
Forgets her own locality -
As I - toward Thee -


She knows herself an incense small -
Yet small - she sighs - if All - is All -
How larger - be?


The Ocean - smiles - at her Conceit -
But she, forgetting Amphitrite -
Pleads - "Me"?






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