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Oscar Wilde - PhedreOscar Wilde - Phedre
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.            HOW vain and dull this common world must seem                To such a One as thou, who should`st have talked                At Florence with Mirandola, or walked              Through the cool olives of the Academe:              Thou should`st have gathered reeds from a green stream                For Goat-foot Pan`s shrill piping, and have played                With the white girls in that Phæacian glade              Where grave Odysseus wakened from his dream.              Ah! surely once some urn of Attic clay                Held thy wan dust, and thou hast come again                          Back to this common world so dull and vain,              For thou wert weary of the sunless day,                The heavy fields of scentless asphodel,                The loveless lips with which men kiss in Hell.
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