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TO A BERKELEYAN IDEALIST by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF NATURE BE A PHASTASM, AS THOU SAY'ST
Last Line: MORE THAN CONTENT WITH WORLDS THAT ONLY SEEM.
Subject(s): BERKELEY, GEORGE (1685-1753); IDEALISM; PHILOSOPHY & PHILOSOPHERS;
IF Nature be a phastasm, as thou say'st,
A splendid figment and prodigious dream,
To reach the Real and True I'll make no haste,
More than content with worlds that only Seem.



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