“Only, from the long line of spray”

— Matthew Arnold , Dover Beach

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Dover Beach (1867)

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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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“Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.”

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