Forbidden fruit a flavor has
That lawful orchards mocks;
How
luscious
lies the pea within
The pod that Duty locks!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And bold De Vega, who
breathed
quick
Verse after verse, till death's old trick
Put pause to life and rhetoric.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The very dress of the advocates under the
emperors
was prejudicial to eloquence.
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Tacitus |
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Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Somehow my soul seems suddenly free
From the weighing of fate and the sad
discussion
of sin,
By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.
| Guess: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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All of you now,
farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For while I clung to
my appointed charge and
governed
our course, I pulled the tiller with me
in my fall, and the shock as I slipped wrenched it away.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But Geraint was not
delighted
with the magnificence.
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Tennyson |
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--Sun, who tarries on high,
contemplating
Rome:
Greater never you've nor shall you in future see greater
Than Rome, O sun, as your priest, Horace, enraptured foretold.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We'll gently walk, and sweetly talk,
Till the silent moon shine clearly;
I'll grasp thy waist, and, fondly prest,
Swear how I love thee dearly:
Not vernal show'rs to budding flow'rs,
Not Autumn to the farmer,
So dear can be as thou to me,
My fair, my lovely
charmer!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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See, my
cantabile!
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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tam bene rara suo
miscentur
cinnama nardo,
Massica Theseis tam bene uina fauis;
nec melius teneris iunguntur uitibus ulmi,
nec plus lotos aquas, litora myrtus amat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The tavern's only Lar
Seemed (be not
shocked!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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What is your
tidings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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For all that's left of winter
Is
moisture
in the ground.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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We were five hundred, but with swift support
Grew to three thousand as we reached the port,
So that seeing us marching to that stage,
Those most terrified found new
courage!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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* This work the Saints best
represents
* That serves for altar's ornaments.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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8:
Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
Whom he had cloy'd and grac'd with
princely
favors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Farm hands from the
terraces
of the blest
Danced on the mists with their ladies fine;
And Johnny Appleseed laughed with his dreams,
And swam once more the ice-cold streams.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Hell's howling and
clattering
to drown it sought vainly,--
Through the devilish, grim scoffs, that might turn one to stone,
I caught the sweet, loving, enrapturing tone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Though my
strength
is great, my love is too.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
How should the
Autocrat
of bondage be 300
The king of serfs, and set the nations free?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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We gather out our natures like a cloud,
And thus fulfil their
lightnings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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5620
He thenkith nought that ever he shal
Into any
syknesse
falle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_Iuuenes_ GRVenB
50 _Numquam se extollit quam mun{i}team ducat uuam_ T
51 _per
flectens_
T
52 _flacellum_ T
53 _han{c} nulli agri?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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James
Cunningham, Earl of Glencairn, died 20th January, 1791, aged 42 years;
he was succeeded by his only and
childless
brother, with whom this
ancient race was closed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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He gives the words of the decree, and also of the
edict, by which the
teachers
were banished by Crassus, several years
after.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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is
moeueable
[[pg 172]]
{and} t{ra}nsitorie moment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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USHER: Franz von Sickingen is without and sends word that having
heard how faith has been broken with his brother-in-law, he insists
upon justice, or within an hour he will fire the four
quarters
of the
town, and abandon it to be sacked by his men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way composed for Gomez of
Santistevan
when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Nor me the foot-bath pleases more; my foot
Shall none of all thy
ministring
maidens touch, 430
Unless there be some ancient matron grave
Among them, who hath pangs of heart endured
Num'rous, and keen as I have felt myself;
Her I refuse not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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You see
I've had it since I was born;
And lately a
devilish
corn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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DAMOETAS
For me too wrought the same Alcimedon
A pair of cups, and round the handles wreathed
Pliant acanthus, Orpheus in the midst,
The forests
following
in his wake; nor yet
Have I set lip to them, but lay them by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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I have heard your quick breaths
And seen your arms writhe toward me;
At those times
--God help us--
I was
impelled
to be a grand knight,
And swagger and snap my fingers,
And explain my mind finely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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I wrote a novel, I wrote fat volumes of journals; I
took myself very
seriously
in those days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Will men not say
That
insolently
we made of sacred things
A worldly instrument?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom betrayed the dell,
Many will
doubtless
ask me,
But I shall never tell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"But all the mighty standard yet had wrought,
And was appointed to perform thereafter,
Throughout the mortal kingdom which it sway'd,
Falls in
appearance
dwindled and obscur'd,
If one with steady eye and perfect thought
On the third Caesar look; for to his hands,
The living Justice, in whose breath I move,
Committed glory, e'en into his hands,
To execute the vengeance of its wrath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
To think of time--of all that
retrospection!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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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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"
My
sympathies
were warming fast
Towards the little fellow:
He was so utterly aghast
At having found a Man at last,
And looked so scared and yellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
For the most part, the poetry of war,
undertaken
in this spirit, has
touched and exalted such special qualities as patriotism, courage, self-
sacrifice, enterprise, and endurance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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STREET CRIES
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky,
Rousing the world to labour's various cry,
To tend the flock, to bind the
mellowing
grain,
From ardent toil to forge a little gain,
And fasting men go forth on hurrying feet,
BUY BREAD, BUY BREAD, rings down the eager street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Perhaps the theory of Perizonius cannot
be better
illustrated
than by showing that what he supposes to
have taken place in ancient times has, beyond all doubt, taken
place in modern times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Like moon just dawning on the night
The
crescent
honours of his head;
One dapple spot of snowy white,
The rest all red.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Now, Christ be
thanked!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
My sister and my fae,
Grim
vengeance
yet shall whet a sword
That thro' thy soul shall gae!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
When I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain;
Spectre cannot harm,
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath
suffered
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
There is a
legend[15] that he was drowned while making a drunken effort to embrace
the
reflection
of the moon in the water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
"
They shall remember how we used to walk
Here on the cliff beneath the oleanders
In the long limpid
twilight
of the spring,
Looking toward Lemnos, where the amber sky
Was pierced with the faint arrow of a star.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
As they are
arresting
him_, DOWN-RIGHT _enters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
_129
conqueror
or conqueror's cj.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Perhaps you're not aware
That, if you don't behave, you'll soon
Be
chuckling
to another tune--
And so you'd best take care!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
555
What need of armes, where peace doth ay remaine,
(Said he,) and
battailes
none are to be fought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
:
_diuuenti_
uisus sum legere in
Paris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Cupid, escaping attention, slipped off to enslave, however, her hero:
Artlessly conquering by--force of a
beautiful
girl,
Afterward decked out his couple in mute masquerade: lionskin
Over her shoulders, the club leaned (by much toil) at her side;
Wiry stiff hair of the hero larded with blossoms, a distaff
Laid in his fist, to conform strength to the dalliance of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
In two
The six
associates
part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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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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[314] Driven in from the country parts by the
Lacedaemonian
invaders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Secondo che ci
affliggono
i disiri
e li altri affetti, l'ombra si figura;
e quest' e la cagion di che tu miri>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
My
crippled
sense fares bow'd along
His uncompanioned way,
And wronged by death pays life with wrong
And I wake by night and dream by day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
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practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Chimene
You should rather take part in all this joy,
Blessing the grace the Heavens employ,
Madame, no one but me
deserves
to suffer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
these young birds,
With gay and
glittering
wing and amorous song,
Can shed their love as lightly as their plumage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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My boy was by my side, so slim
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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with great surprise,
He saw a palace of
extensive
size,
Erected where, an hour or two before,
A hovel was not seen, nor e'en a door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The seventh, the fraudful wretch (no cause descried),
Touch'd by Diana's
vengeful
arrow, died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
2 By the
pricking
of my Thumbes,
Something wicked this way comes:
Open Lockes, who euer knockes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
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editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
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subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Then, fired by all the Muse, aloud he sings
The mighty deeds of demigods and kings;
From that fierce wrath the noble song arose,
That made Ulysses and
Achilles
foes;
How o'er the feast they doom the fall of Troy;
The stern debate Atrides hears with joy;
For Heaven foretold the contest, when he trod
The marble threshold of the Delphic god,
Curious to learn the counsels of the sky,
Ere yet he loosed the rage of war on Troy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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CYCLOPS:
'Twas Nobody
destroyed
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
| 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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No man:
Th'
expedition
of my violent Loue
Out-run the pawser, Reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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But what
If I expose
beforehand
thy bold fraud
To all men?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"The thirst
Of
knowledge
high, whereby thou art inflam'd,
To search the meaning of what here thou seest,
The more it warms thee, pleases me the more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Let us see," said he, "if you will be able to keep your word; poets
have as much need of an
audience
as Ivan Kouzmitch has need of his
'_petit verre_' before dinner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Se l'ira sovra 'l mal voler s'aggueffa,
ei ne
verranno
dietro piu crudeli
che 'l cane a quella lievre ch'elli acceffa'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I saw parch'd
Abyssinia
rouse and sing
To the silver cymbals' ring!
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Keats |
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There is no copy at the India
House, none at the
Bibliotheque
Nationale of Paris.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And thou, who never yet of human wrong
Left the unbalanced scale, great
Nemesis!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I am God from
Eternity
to Eternity
Obey thy Lord.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les
convives
mastiquaient a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In the present instance
the worthy man was so entirely carried away by the
excessive
warmth of
his sympathy, that he seemed to have quite forgotten, when he offered to
go bail for his young friend, that he himself (Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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BRUMES ET PLUIES
O fins d'automne, hivers, printemps trempes de boue,
Endormeuses
saisons!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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