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1858–1935

ON LANDOR'S “HELLENICS”

William Watson

Come hither, who grow cloyed to surfeiting With lyric draughts o'ersweet, from rills that rise On Hybla not Parnassus mountain: come With beakers rinsed of the dulcifluous wave

Hither, and see a magic miracle Of happiest science, the bland Attic skies True-mirrored by an English well;— no stream Whose heaven-belying surface makes the stars

Reel, with its restless idiosyncrasy; But well unstirred, save when at times it takes Tribute of lover's eyelids, and at times Bubbles with laughter of some sprite below.

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