Versos English Algernon Charles Swinburne Xxiv

English poem

Xxiv

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Wait! the crab's twice alive, mark! Oh, worthy, your soul, Of strange ends, great results, novel labours! Take note, I reject this for one! (ay, now, straight to the hole! Safe in sand there--your skirts smooth out all as they float!) I, shirk drinking through flaws in the bowl?