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Historical Manual of English Prosody

Note 180 — Chapter III · ORIGINS OF LINES AND STANZAS

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Consider the sea's listless chime, Time's self it is, made audible: The murmur of the earth's own shell— Secret continuance sublime Is the sea's end; our sight may pass No furlong further. Since time was This sound hath told the lapse of time. (The Sea Limits.)

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