"The Fire Sermon" Annotations
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==Stanza 7== | ==Stanza 7== | ||
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"This music crept by me upon the waters" | "This music crept by me upon the waters" | ||
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| + | This alludes to [[''The Tempest'' (Act I Scene II)]]. | ||
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| + | :Sitting on a bank, | ||
| + | :Weeping again the king my father’s wreck, | ||
| + | :This music crept by me upon the waters, | ||
| + | :Allaying both their fury and my passion | ||
| + | :With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it, | ||
| + | :Or it hath drawn me rather. | ||
==Stanza 8== | ==Stanza 8== | ||
