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The Poems of Digby Mackworth Dolben

Edited with a Memoir by Robert Bridges
Dolben, Digby Mackworth (1848-1867)

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AFTER READING AESCHYLUS

I will not sing my little puny songs.
It is more blessed for the rippling pool
To be absorbed in the great ocean-wave
Than even to kiss the sea-weeds on its breast.
Therefore in passiveness I will lie still,
And let the multitudinous music of the Greek
Pass into me, till I am musical.
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