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THE STREAM AND THE TARN by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE STREAM CAME PLUNGING AND LEAPING
Last Line: AND THE HEART OF PEARL IN ITS BREAST.
Subject(s): BROOKS; SEA; STREAMS; CREEKS; OCEAN;
THE stream came plunging and leaping,
And white was the crash of its glee.
Whence came it, a hunter unsleeping,
In headlong hunt for the sea?

From the silent tarn up yonder! --
The cloistered tarn, that abides
Where the guarding mountains ponder
As they gaze on the far-off tides.

And there, immured from commotion,
The cloistered tarn is at rest,
That has only dreamed of the ocean,
And the heart of pearl in its breast.



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