“For while the tired waves vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.”

—  Arthur Hugh Clough

Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, st. 3.

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English poet 1819–1861

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