...the water. ("—on the French coast, the light / Gleams and is gone . . .") Arnold stood listening to "the grating roar / Of pebbles which the waves draw...high strand, / Begin, and cease, and then again begin . . ." After a sestet's musing on the perfect civilization of Greece, Arnold's thoughts returned to...

...than any in the previous two centuries. Arnold begins with a version of a world of endless sadness: Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then begin again, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in and ends with a...

...stand, 5 Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets...moon-blanch'd land, Listen! you hear the grating roar 10 Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and...

.... . . seemed eternal. Perhaps a reminiscence of II. 9-14 of 'Dover Beach' (1851) by Matthew Arnold: 'Listen! you hear the grating roar / Of pebbles which the waves draw back . . . / Begin, and cease, and then begin again, / With tremulous cadence slow, and bring / The eternal...

...England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling....

...ebb meets the moon-blanch 'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ¿ïgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of...

...in the previous two centuries. Arnold begins with a version of a world of endless sadness: Lisren! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling Ar theit rerurn, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then begin again, With tremulous cadence...

...disillusionment and longing. In it he calls to his wife: "Come to the window, sweet is the night air! Listen! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles, which the waves draw back." The moment of intimacy and shared reflection celebrates a special view of marriage, a secret, inviolate...

...comma at the beginning of the next line, qualif1es or even seems to take back what had come before: Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,...

...stand, Glimmering and vast,out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window,sweet is the night-air! Only,from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd...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...