In this house with starry dome, Floored with gemlike plains… - William Watson

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In this house with starry dome,
Floored with gemlike plains and seas,
Shall I never feel at home,
Never wholly be at ease?<p>On from room to room I stray,
Yet mine Host can ne’er espy,
And I know not to this day
Whether guest or captive I.

William Watson

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Sir William Watson (1858 – 11 August 1935) was an English poet, popular in his time for the political content of his verse.

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The thirst to know and understand—
A large and liberal discontent:
These are the goods in life's rich hand,
The things that are more excellent.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,
And void the places where the minstrels stood,
Differs in nought from what hath been before,
And is nor ill nor good.

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