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1837–1909

GERMANY

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I am she beside whose forest-hidden fountains Slept freedom armed, By the magic born to music in my mountains Heart-chained and charmed.

By those days the very dream whereof delivers My soul from wrong; By the sounds that make of all my ringing rivers None knows what song;

By the many tribes and names of my division One from another; By the single eye of sun-compelling vision;

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