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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

William Watson 1858–1935

Epigrams. IV. On Dürer’s Melencolia

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WHAT holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range?

Not the strange sea, strange earth, or heav’n more strange;

But her own phantom dwarfing these great three,

More strange than all, more old than heav’n, earth, sea.