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First Line: I marvelled at earth's glory, her grey seas
Last Line: How shall I through these dreams thy realty trace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


I marvelled at earth's glory, her grey seas
Which stretch in light in confines of the sky,
At her still mountains reared immovably,
The fear and wonder of her leafy trees;
Much more I marvelled, musing at my ease,
On man and all his curious history,
The scars and pangs of his antiquity,
The childlike splendour of his fantasies,

How, like earth's grass, he flourishes and goes --
His grief, his love, his passion, and his fear,
His ant-like labours, his sublime repose --
Yet finds no peace to be accomplished here.
O God, I said, who mewed me in this place,
How shall I through these dreams Thy realty trace!





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