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ON A CERTAIN GREAT POET by WILLIAM WATSON

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First Line: POET, THY STRAIN, AN ALPINE CATARACT, LEAPS
Last Line: YET MADE IMMORTAL IN EVANISHMENT.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
POET, thy strain, an Alpine cataract, leaps
From so remote and superhuman steeps,
It never finds the valley, but midway
Hangs beautifully lost upon the day;
In iridescence lost, in vapour spent,
Yet made immortal in evanishment.



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