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SHAKESPEARE by WILLIAM WATSON

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First Line: O LET ME LEAVE THE PLAINS BEHIND
Last Line: THE LONG HEAVE OF THE SURGING WORLD.
Subject(s): DRAMATISTS; PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS; POETRY & POETS; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616);
O LET me leave the plains behind,
And let me leave the vales below
Into the highlands of the mind,
Into the mountains let me go.

My Keats, my Spenser, loved I well;
Gardens and statued lawns were these;
But not for ever would I dwell
In arbours and in pleasances.

Here are the heights, crest beyond crest,
Loftiest of all things cloud-encurled:
And I will watch from Everest
The long heave of the surging world.



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