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W H Auden - Look, StrangerW H Auden - Look, Stranger
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    Look, stranger, on this island now     The leaping light for your delight discovers,     Stand stable here     And silent be,     That through the channels of the ear     May wander like a river     The swaying sound of the sea.     Here at a small field`s ending pause     Where the chalk wall falls to the foam and its tall ledges     Oppose the pluck     And knock of the tide,     And the shingle scrambles after the suck-     -ing surf, and a gull lodges     A moment on its sheer side.     Far off like floating seeds the ships     Diverge on urgent voluntary errands,     And this full view     Indeed may enter     And move in memory as now these clouds do,     That pass the harbour mirror     And all the summer through the water saunter.
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