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1858–1935

ON DÜRER'S MELENCOLIA

William Watson

What holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range? Not the strange sea, strange earth, or heav'n more strange; But her own phantom dwarfing these great three, More strange than all, more old than heav'n, earth, sea.

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