Letter To A Purist

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That grandiose colossus whoStood astrideThe envious assaults of sea(Essaying, wave by wave,Tide by tide,To undo him, perpetually),Has nothing on you,O my love,O my great idiot, whoWith one footCaught (as it were) in the muck-trapOf skin and bone,D...

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That grandiose colossus who
Stood astride
The envious assaults of sea
(Essaying, wave by wave,
Tide by tide,
To undo him, perpetually),
Has nothing on you,
O my love,
O my great idiot, who
With one foot
Caught (as it were) in the muck-trap
Of skin and bone,
Dithers with the other way out
In preposterous provinces of the madcap
Cloud-cuckoo,
Agawp at the impeccable moon.

That grandiose colossus whoStood astrideThe envious assaults of sea(Essaying, wave by wave,Tide by tide,To undo him, perpetually),Has nothing on you,O my love,O my great idiot, whoWith one footCaught (as it were) in the muck-trapOf skin and bone,D...

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