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The Marshes of Glynn
Sidney Lanier · 1878
Original text in English.
Far from the sound of the scythe of time and the trowel of commerce, these verses go in search, on the shore of the Atlantic, of a boundless expanse where the soul is set free.
Poetry · 1005 words · about 4 min of reading
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Sidney Lanier († 1881): public-domain work. The text is that of Representative Poetry Online (Poems of Sidney Lanier, ed. Mary Day Lanier (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1885): 14-18.). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
Note on the edition (in French): Poème seul : les notes, numéros de vers et fiches des éditeurs de Representative Poetry Online, protégés, ne sont pas repris.
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