Arts & Sciences
Epilogue
From Elegiac Poems
Arts & Sciences
So I sang; but the Muse,
Shaking her head, took the harp--
Stern interrupted my strain,
Angrily smote on the chords.
April showers
Rush o'er the Yorkshire moors.
Stormy, through driving mist,
Loom the blurr'd hills; the rain
Lashes the newly-made grave.
Unquiet souls!
--In the dark fermentation of earth,
In the never idle workshop of nature,
In the eternal movement,
Ye shall find yourselves again!
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Codex Note
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Macmillan, 1891)
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Arnold, Matthew. “Epilogue.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/arnold/104/.
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Arnold, Matthew. “Epilogue.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/arnold/104/.
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