“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 (poet)

World-Strangeness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English poet, born 1858 1858–1935

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