A reading of an aching poem about incompatibility: "The Forsaken Merman" written by Matthew Arnold
Channel: CHRYSANTHEMUM STORIES
Date: 31/07/2018

https://whatthechrysanthemumknows.com/2018/01/15/the-forsaken-merman/

COME, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below!
Now my brothers call from the bay
Now the great winds shoreward blow,
Now the salt tides seaward flow;
Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Children dear, let us away!
This way, this way!

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Reading Selection:

The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold. (1955). In E. Markham (Ed.), Anthology of the World’s Best Poems (Memorial Ed., Vol. IV, p. 2108-2113). New York: Wm.H. Wise & Co.