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"'And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea," he quoted with dramatic intonation, adding helpfully: "Matthew Arnold. Or is it Arnold Bennett? Anyway, think how far away those places are," he pleaded. "From you!" he concluded. A little decided frown crept between her eyebrows. "I've accepted you as a gentleman on trust," she began, when he broke in: "Don't do it.
And that function of the riddle of the painful earth which Lucretius, thousands of years ago, put in his grim Nequicquam! which one of Mr Arnold's own contemporaries formulated with less magnificence and more popularity, but still with music and truth in Strangers Yet here receives almost its final poetical expression. "The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea."
The homeless winds that twist and race, The heights of cloud that veer and roll, The unplumb'd Abyss, the drift of Space These are the fears that drain the soul. Ye dauntless ones from out the sea Fear nought. Perchance your gods are strong To rule the air where grim things be, And quell the deeps with all their throng.
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