Chimene
Sire, one faints from joy as well as sadness:
Excess of
happiness
may bring on weakness,
Surprise the soul, and overcome the senses.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It was put down
entirely through the grossly illegal conduct of certain agitators in
Boston and elsewhere, who were not slaves themselves, nor owners of
slaves, nor had
anything
to do with the question really.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They read of politics and not of grain,
And speechify and comment and explain,
And know so much of
Parliament
and state
You'd think they're members when you heard them prate;
And know so little of their farms the while
They can but urge a wiser man to smile.
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or
the exclusion or
limitation
of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Wherefore
again, again,
Even as I say, there is a joint delight.
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If he lives, and his game spirit increases,
heaven and earth shall fail him sooner than game; and when he dies, he
will go to more
extensive
and, perchance, happier hunting-grounds.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Enter_ SIR
NICHOLAS
HEATH.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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'
'It is
certainly
genuine,' he replied.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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'
The
huntsman
loosens on the morn
A gay and wandering cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Last came, and last did go,
The Pilot of the
Galilean
lake,
Two massy Keyes he bore of metals twain, 110
(The Golden opes, the Iron shuts amain)
He shook his Miter'd locks, and stern bespake,
How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain,
Anow of such as for their bellies sake,
Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What widens within you, Walt
Whitman?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Let our laughter
Leap like
firelight
up again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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inges ne
shewedest
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Pages in purple run madly about,
Rolling their eyes and grinning with huge,
frightened
mouths.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Juste as I was wythe AElla to be bleste,
Shappe foullie thos hathe
snatched
hym awaie.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_Winter Walk_
The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the
leafless
shrubs all brown and grey,
And smiles at winter be it eer so keen
With all the leafy luxury of May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I am torn, torn with thy beauty,
O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
, and
I have adopted it in
preference
to 'But scarce a Poet', which is an
awkward phrase and does not express what the writer means.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable
conceited
fellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
A
Gentleman
who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from
Almighty God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
You would deny the joy and sense
Of keeping an
honourable
silence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Our love was new, and then but in the spring,
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her
mournful
hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough,
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Each due
atonement
gladly I prepare;
And heaven regard me as I justly swear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
XXXIV
A little lowly
Hermitage
it was,
Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side,
Far from resort of people, that did pas 300
In travell to and froe: a little wyde?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Lest of his penalty ye taste,
And shattered brain and reason feel
The roaring,
ruthless
thunder-peal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh;
The short'ning winter-day is near a close;
The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh;
The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose:
The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes,--
This night his weekly moil is at an end,
Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes,
Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend,
And weary, o'er the moor, his course does
hameward
bend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The tops are each a shining square
Shuttles that
steadily
press through woolly fabric.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In
Macedonian
fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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`But nathelees, this warne I yow,' quod she,
`A kinges sone al-though ye be, y-wis, 170
Ye shal na-more have soverainetee
Of me in love, than right in that cas is;
Ne I nil forbere, if that ye doon a-mis,
To wrathen yow; and whyl that ye me serve,
Cherycen
yow right after ye deserve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
This is the Serieant,
Who like a good and hardie Souldier fought
'Gainst my Captiuitie: Haile braue friend;
Say to the King, the
knowledge
of the Broyle,
As thou didst leaue it
Cap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
_ Why, if I wept, it were no remedy;
And do not _thou_ spend labour on the air
To
bootless
uses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Empanoplied
and plumed
We entered in, and waited, fifty there
Opposed to fifty, till the trumpet blared
At the barrier like a wild horn in a land
Of echoes, and a moment, and once more
The trumpet, and again: at which the storm
Of galloping hoofs bare on the ridge of spears
And riders front to front, until they closed
In conflict with the crash of shivering points,
And thunder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
But I look on thee--on thee--
Beholding, besides love, the end of love,
Hearing
oblivion
beyond memory;
As one who sits and gazes from above,
Over the rivers to the bitter sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Arrows entered Zhaoyang Palace, reed pipes moaned at
Thinwillow
Camp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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covering for the neck;
wimpled, i, 4, folded,
provided
with a wimple.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
I fear lest hasty action
followed
your threat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Gib nur erst acht, die Bestialitat
Wird sich gar
herrlich
offenbaren.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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So the sad trumpets told their funeral tale
While from the bier the torch
dislodged
my frame;
What did my husband, what my sires avail,
Or all these numerous pledges of my fame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He stood before the
tumbling
main
With joy too tense for sober brain;
He shared the life of the element,
The tie of blood and home was rent:
As if in him the welkin walked,
The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,
And he the bard, a crystal soul
Sphered and concentric with the whole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Thus am I Dante for a space and am One Francois Villon, ballad-lord and thief Or am such holy ones I may not write, Lest
blasphemy
be writ against my name; This for an instant and the flame is gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Bernart de
Ventadorn
(fl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Where sulphury
Fulegethon
does ever burn !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Strange is the heart of man, with its quick, mysterious
instincts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
) My dear bridegroom, comely
son of a king, not to me wast thou given, not to thy
affianced bride, but to a dark
sepulchre
in a strange
land; never shall I take comfort, ever shall I weep for
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
BROOKS,
In the Clerk's Office of the
District
Court
of the District of Rhode Island.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
masterest
thou some thirty acres of grass-land
Full told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
moles
pulcherrima
caeli
ardebit flammis tota repente suis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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How you've revered the
formative
will of those ancient artists!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
At sights of charms, enchanting to the eyes,
The gay gallant exclaimed, with fond surprise:--
Ye gods, what striking
beauties
now I see!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
How many colors taken
On
Revolution
Day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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the momentary dews
Which,
sparkling
to the twilight stars, infuse
Freshness in the green turf that wraps the dead,
Whose names are mausoleums of the Muse,
Are gently prest with far more reverent tread
Than ever paced the slab which paves the princely head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
When Byron once more
bethought
himself of his old subject, he not only
sent for the MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying to every word a
twinborn
sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
And who wants to swallow a
mouthful
of sorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
POEMS FROM
ADDITIONAL
MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Or even upon the
measured
pulpitings
Of the familiar false and true?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
"
II
--"Her look is but her story:
construe
not its symbols keenly:
In her wonderworks yea surely has she wounded where she loves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
And I am
narrowed
to myself once more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
They were a different people from the Goths, though, perhaps, in
alliance
with them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
that
eloquent
voice
Surely I never heard--yet it were well
Had I but heard it with its thrilling tones
In earlier days!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
The unshorn mountains to the stars up-toss
Voices of gladness; ay, the very rocks,
The very thickets, shout and sing, 'A god,
A god is he,
Menalcas
"Be thou kind,
Propitious to thine own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
They
strewed flowers alike on the graves of the
Confederate
and of the
National soldiers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
1
Qingzhou
and Xuzhou were two prefectures in the east, deep in An Lushan?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
A breed whose proof is in time and deeds,
What we are we are, nativity is answer enough to objections,
We wield ourselves as a weapon is wielded,
We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
We are executive in ourselves, we are
sufficient
in the variety of
ourselves,
We are the most beautiful to ourselves and in ourselves,
We stand self-pois'd in the middle, branching thence over the world,
From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of
happiness
by hope supplied,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is given in vain;
Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others' wants by thine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
It is a strange life,
patterned
in fire and letters
on the prison pavement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
There stands the
Inspector
at thy door:
Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
"
What joy, for
fatherland
to die!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
and I will wear the leopard skin,
And steal the mooned wings of Ashtaroth,
Upon whose icy chariot we could win
Cithaeron
in an hour ere the froth
Has over-brimmed the wine-vat or the Faun
Ceased from the treading!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Passing yonder oak, I heard
Sharp accents of my woodland bird;
I watched the singer with delight,--
But mark what changed my joy to fright,--
When that bird sang, I gave the theme;
That wood-bird sang my last night's dream,
A brown wren was the Daniel
That pierced my trance its drift to tell,
Knew my quarrel, how and why,
Published it to lake and sky,
Told every word and syllable
In his
flippant
chirping babble,
All my wrath and all my shames,
Nay, God is witness, gave the names.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
I had
originally some wild notion of
confiding
it all to Kitty; of begging her
to marry me at once; and in her arms defying the ghostly occupant of the
'rickshaw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
XIII
And there he sets him to fulfil
His frustrate first intent:
And lay upon her bed, at last,
The
offering
earlier meant:
When, on his stooping figure, ghast
And haggard eyes are bent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
II (part of the
Assyrian
version)
published in HAUPT, _ibid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
"
— Current Opinion,
New York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
One can't make omelets without
breaking
eggs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
"'Rivers to the Sea' is the most
beautiful
book of pure lyrics that has
come to my hand in years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And
newspapers
from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
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But mine
unconscious
of the truth remain'd;
Or, what it would not see, to see refrain'd,
That I might sink in sudden misery!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Dumoise went through Simla without halting, and returned to Meridki
there to take over charge from the man who had been
officiating
for him
during his tour.
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Kipling - Poems |
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more than Coney's robe
Soft, or goose-marrow or ear's lowmost lobe,
Or Age's languid yard and cobweb'd part,
Same Thallus
greedier
than the gale thou art,
When the Kite-goddess shows thee Gulls agape, 5
Return my muffler thou hast dared to rape,
Saetaban napkins, tablets of Thynos, all
Which (Fool!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The best singer is not the one
who has the most lithe and
powerful
organ: the pleasure of poems is not in
them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound.
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Whitman |
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Greece is no lightsome land of social mirth;
But he whom Sadness
sootheth
may abide,
And scarce regret the region of his birth,
When wandering slow by Delphi's sacred side,
Or gazing o'er the plains where Greek and Persian died.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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let not the fear
To want a guide
distress
thee.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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if all
disgustful
be,
The extreme scab take thee, and thine, for me.
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Robert Herrick |
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Or even at times, when days are dark,
GAROTTE?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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XVI
But wherefore do not you a
mightier
way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And now the spacious hall
And gloomy passages with tumult rang
And clamour of that throng, when thus, a youth, 930
Insolent
as his fellows, dared to speak.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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That from a patriot of
distinguished
note,
Have bled and purged me to a simple vote.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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