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Epigrams of art, life, and nature

By William Watson

Watson, William (1858-1935)

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VII. [I close your Marlowe's page, my Shakspere's ope.]

I close your Marlowe's page, my Shakspere's ope.
How welcome—after gong and cymbal's din—
The continuity, the long slow slope
And vast curves of the gradual violin!