[[Yes!->2]] in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless [[watery wild,->3]] <iframe width="25%" height="100" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149876332&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true"></iframe> ((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... <img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQYEediM97Osy-oLo_LWroCAcWKJoYUBRUXwBBLgUxTUTIVP31Sxw" alt="some_text" style="width:410;height:492;"> <img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/52/d2/e9/52d2e9deff4ba935e597e333c67d80b4.jpg" alt="some_text" style="width:700;height:516;"> The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. [[This is not a poem.->13]] Poem by Matthew Arnold Paintings by Rene Magritte Interpretation by Rachel Lawyer