Ode to a rock at sea
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My recent holiday off Lérins Abbey in southern France has inspired the following verses, which I wrote on a rock jutting out from the sea:
You are neither in Arcadia Nor the rock Pan sat on and sang No poets ever praised your beauty Or were you a landmark for the intrepid sailors.
Yet you out of a thousand rocks are the most beautiful And you conceal more…
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