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SONNET: 2 by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN

First Line: I THANK THEE, LOVE, THAT THOU HAST OVERTHROWN
Last Line: MY TINY SKIFF ALONG THY GLORIOUS WAKE.
Subject(s): SELFISHNESS;
I THANK thee, Love, that thou hast overthrown
The tyranny of Self; I would not now
Even in desire, possess thee mine alone
In land-locked anchorage: nay rather go,
Ride the high seas, the fruitless human seas,
Where white-winged ships are set for barren shores,
Though freighted all, those lovely argosies,
And laden with a wealth of rarest stores.
Go, draw them after thee, and lead them on
With thine own music, to the ideal west,
Where, in the youth of ages, vaguely shone
The term of all, the Islands of the Blest.
I too dare steer, for once-loved haven's sake,
My tiny skiff along thy glorious wake.



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