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Earth's Voices

Transcripts from Nature, Sospitra, and Other Poems. By William Sharp
  
  
  
  

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‘The tædium vitæ results from incapacity to see ------ To write the poetry of Ennui is to mistake the first function of the poet, whose special work it is to lend a new seeing to our eyes, to enable us to see the glory and the wonder of Nature's largess.’ Theodore Watts.