It put me in mind of Grave's "The Cool Web"
There's a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear;
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.
One can only marvel at the discipline and precision of his language, who else could manage "brininess" and "volubility" in a single line and still it scans?
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