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AFTER READING AESCHYLUS by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN

First Line: I WILL NOT SING MY LITTLE PUNY SONGS
Last Line: PASS INTO ME, TILL I AM MUSICAL.
Subject(s): AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.);
I WILL not sing my little puny songs.
It is more blessed for the rippling pool
To be absorbed in the great ocean-wave
Than even to kiss the sea-weeds on its breast.
Therefore in passiveness I will lie still,
And let the multitudinous music of the Greek
Pass into me, till I am musical.



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