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ON A GREAT POET'S OBSCURITY by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON

First Line: WHAT MEANS HIS LINE? YOU SAY NONE KNOWS?
Last Line: TO DEEPS WHERE LUCENT WONDERS BE.

WHAT means his line? You say none knows?
Yet one perhaps may learn -- in time:
For, sure, could Life be told in prose
There were no need at all for rhyme.

Alike two waters blunt the sight --
The muddy shallow and the sea;
Here every current leads aright
To deeps where lucent wonders be.



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