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That Is He
ОглавлениеUnknown, the Edessene—a stranger here in Antioch—
writes a lot. And there, at last, the final canto has
appeared. Altogether that makes eighty-three
poems in all. But the poet is worn out
from so much writing, so much versifying,
the terrific strain of so much Greek phrasing,
and every little thing now weighs him down.
A sudden thought, however, pulls him out
of his dejection—the exquisite “That is he”
which Lucian once heard in a dream.
[1898; 1909]
