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ART'S RIDDLE by WILLIAM WATSON

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First Line: COME, FRIEND, - HER SKEIN I ALSO WOULD UNRAVEL!
Last Line: TAKES AND GIVES BACK THE SEA.
Subject(s): ART & ARTISTS;
COME, friend, -- her skein I also would unravel!
Art is not Nature lost in man's control,
But Nature's reminiscences of travel
Across the human soul.

Or 'tis a tidal river, that, each day,
Ebbing and flowing under cliff and tree,
With mutual and eternal interplay
Takes and gives back the sea.



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