[[Yes!->2]]
in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless [[watery wild,->3]]
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((Open next link in new tab to continue soundtrack.))We mortal millions live [[alone.->4]]
<img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/e2/93/45/e29345ff9b11f0bb4a860abba813b256.jpg" alt="some_text" style="width:400;height:547;">The [[islands->5]] feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.
Oh! then a longing like despair
Is to their [[farthest caverns->8]] sent;
<img src="https://uploads8.wikiart.org/images/rene-magritte/the-therapeutist-1937(1).jpg" alt="some_text" style="width:675;height:950;">But when the moon their hollows lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely [[sing;->6]]
<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U7N6CH5mIhQ/S1qnqswn4cI/AAAAAAAAD08/dAeyc8xJpsY/s640/rene-magritte-Le-baiser.jpg" alt="some_text" style="width:517;height:640;">And [[lovely notes->7]], from shore to shore,
Across the sounds and channels pour— For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a [[single continent!->9]]
<img src="http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/rene-magritte-1353720948_org.gif" alt="some_text" style="width:532;height:500;">Now round us spreads the [[watery plain—->10]]
Oh might our marges meet again!
<img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQuQw-3STqWd4ALdlf2NgNY5H7I0SznNZHMiBF5VswkoawPSzSmBA" alt="some_text" style="width:522;height:586;">Who order'd, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?
[[Who->11]] renders vain their deep desire?— A [[GOD, a GOD->12]] their severance ruled!
And bade betwixt their shores to be...
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The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.
[[This is not a poem.->13]] Poem by Matthew Arnold
Paintings by Rene Magritte
Interpretation by Rachel Lawyer