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BUDDHA by HERMAN MELVILLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: SWOONING SWIM TO LESS AND LESS
Last Line: ANNUL US INTO THEE.
Subject(s): BUDDHISM; BUDDHA; BUDDHISTS;
"FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOR THAT APPEARETH FOR A LITTLE TIME
AND THEN VANISHETH AWAY."

Swooning swim to less and less,
Aspirant to nothingness!
Sobs of the worlds, and dole of kinds
That dumb endurers be --
Nirvana! absorb us in your skies,
Annul us into thee.



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