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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG: 2, by GOTTFRIED BENN
First Line: Lovers and mockers, both are despicable
Last Line: The shore is everywhere. And always the sea calls.—
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: Lovers and mockers, both are despicable
Last Line: The shore is everywhere. And always the sea calls.—
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
Lovers and mockers, both are despicable.
All longing, all despair, and those who hope.
We are diseasèd gods, and miserable,
And yet too often godward do we grope.
The silken bay. The woods' dark fantasies.
Stars hugely blossoming, like vast snow-balls.
The velvet leap of panthers through the trees.
The shore is everywhere. And always the sea calls.—
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