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In this house with starry dome,
Floored with gemlike plains and seas,
Shall I never feel at home,
Never wholly be at ease?On from room to room I stray,
Yet mine Host can ne’er espy,
And I know not to this day
Whether guest or captive I.

— William Watson Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems (1890)

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Sea that breakest for ever, that breakest and never art broken.

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