Sunday, June 24, 2007

"Dover Beach" by Mathew Arnold

These are only the last two stanzas from the poem. Most beautiful too I think ...

"...Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.'

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