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Updated: May 2, 2025
Take that little poem quite spoiled before the end by a horrible bit of democratic vulgarity which begins: "Come, I will build a Continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon " Is it possible to miss the hidden spheric law which governs such a challenge? Take the poem which begins: "In the growths, by the margins of pond-waters "
Pond-waters; this includes all standing waters chiefly from Rain, and are good or bad as they happen; for where there is a clean bottom, and the water lies undisturbed from the tread of Cattle, or too many Fish, in an open sound Air, in a large quantity, and where the Sun has free access; it then comes near, if not quite as good as Rain or River-waters, as is that of Blew-pot Pond on the high Green at Gaddesden in Hertfordshire and many others, which are often prefer'd for Brewing, even beyond many of the soft Well-waters about them.
That peculiar poignancy of memory, like a sharp spear, which arrests us at the smell of certain plants or mosses, or nameless earth-mould, or "growths by the margins of pond-waters;" that poignancy which brings back the indescribable balm of Spring and the bitter-sweetness of irremediable loss; who can communicate it like Shelley?
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