Indeed, since Byron, poets of his school
seem to assume this virtue if they have it not, and we take their
utterances under its
influence
for what they are worth.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Such a storm that hardly
Will Tsar Boris contrive to keep the crown
Upon his clever head; and losing it
Will get but his
deserts!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The hour is growing late--the Duke awaits use--
Thy presence is
expected
in the hall
Below.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
Forthwith
I join'd
My escort, and few paces thence we came
To where a rock forth issued from the bank.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Now drew they nigh
The western point, where those half-rounding guards
Just met, & closing stood in
squadron
joind
Awaiting next command.
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Milton |
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"Yet still before him as he flies
One pallid form shall ever rise,
And, bodying forth in glassy eyes
"The vision of a
vanished
good,
Low peering through the tangled wood,
Shall freeze the current of his blood.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Basmanov, thou,
And ye, my friends, on the grave's brink I pray you
To serve my son with zeal and
rectitude!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"You'll
sometimes
find that one or two
Are all you really need
To let the wind come whistling through--
But _here_ there'll be a lot to do!
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Lewis Carroll |
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at wyth a bry3t
blaunner
was bounden with-inne;
[E] ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For sons, for heirs, for brothers wreak
Who in Rencesvals were
slaughtered
yester-eve!
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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But neither here seek I, no nor in Heav'n
To dwell, unless by maistring Heav'ns Supreame;
Nor hope to be my self less miserable
By what I seek, but others to make such
As I though thereby worse to me redound:
For onely in destroying I finde ease
To my relentless thoughts; and him destroyd, 130
Or won to what may work his utter loss,
For whom all this was made, all this will soon
Follow, as to him linkt in weal or woe,
In wo then; that destruction wide may range:
To mee shall be the glorie sole among
The infernal Powers, in one day to have marr'd
What he Almightie styl'd, six Nights and Days
Continu'd making, and who knows how long
Before had bin contriving, though perhaps
Not longer then since I in one Night freed 140
From
servitude
inglorious welnigh half
Th' Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng
Of his adorers: hee to be aveng'd,
And to repaire his numbers thus impair'd,
Whether such vertue spent of old now faild
More Angels to Create, if they at least
Are his Created or to spite us more,
Determin'd to advance into our room
A Creature form'd of Earth, and him endow,
Exalted from so base original, 150
With Heav'nly spoils, our spoils: What he decreed
He effected; Man he made, and for him built
Magnificent this World, and Earth his seat,
Him Lord pronounc'd, and, O indignitie!
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Milton |
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"
But the face of the older hermit grew
exceedingly
dark, and he
cried, "O thou cursed coward, thou wouldst not fight.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Bellman looked scared,
And was almost too frightened to speak:
But at length he explained, in a
tremulous
tone,
There was only one Beaver on board;
And that was a tame one he had of his own,
Whose death would be deeply deplored.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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* * * * *
A sojourn in Russia and especially the acquaintance with the novels of
Dostoievsky became potent factors in Rilke's development and served to
deepen creations which without this influence might have
terminated
in a
grandiose aesthesia.
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Rilke - Poems |
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]
Through ancient forests--where like flowing tide
The rising sap shoots vigor far and wide,
Mounting the column of the alder dark
And silv'ring o'er the birch's shining bark--
Hast thou not often, Albert Durer, strayed
Pond'ring, awe-stricken--through the half-lit glade,
Pallid and trembling--glancing not behind
From mystic fear that did thy senses bind,
Yet made thee hasten with
unsteady
pace?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a
terrible
new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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_Deva_: the Dee: a river which
probably
derived its magical character
from Celtic traditions: it was long the boundary of Briton and
Saxon.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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I'm
wondering
about Love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Far off he heard the city's hum and noise,
And now and then the shriller laughter where
The passionate purity of brown-limbed boys
Wrestled or raced in the clear healthful air,
And now and then a little
tinkling
bell
As the shorn wether led the sheep down to the mossy well.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When Rhea Silvia,
princess
and virgin, came down to the Tiber
Just to fetch water, a god seized her and that is the way
Mars begat himself sons, a pair of twins whom a she wolf
Suckled.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
[Picture:
Scorched
both his slippers off his feet]
"Well, it _is_ curious, I agree,
And sounds perhaps like fibs:
But still it's true as true can be--
As sure as your name's Tibbs," said he.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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We know who once, and in what shrine with you-
The he-goats looked aside- the light nymphs laughed-
MENALCAS
Ay, then, I warrant, when they saw me slash
Micon's young vines and trees with
spiteful
hook.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Whanne Autumpne blake[44] and sonne-brente doe appere,
With hys goulde honde guylteynge the falleynge lefe,
Bryngeynge oppe Wynterr to
folfylle
the yere, 180
Beerynge uponne hys backe the riped shefe;
Whan al the hyls wythe woddie sede ys whyte;
Whanne levynne-fyres and lemes do mete from far the syghte;
Whann the fayre apple, rudde as even skie,
Do bende the tree unto the fructyle grounde; 185
When joicie peres, and berries of blacke die,
Doe daunce yn ayre, and call the eyne arounde;
Thann, bee the even foule, or even fayre,
Meethynckes mie hartys joie ys steynced wyth somme care.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I looked at sunrise once,
And then I looked at them,
And
wishfulness
in me arose
For circumstance the same.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_Finis exspectandus est in unoquoque hominum_;
_animali
ad
mutationem promptissmo_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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cleer'd, and places comma after
hate_]
[107 there (if that _1669_: then that (if _B_, _O'F_, _S_]
[111 And, as
unthrifts
_Ed_: And, as unthrifts, _1669_,
_Chambers_]
[112 pay, _Ed_: pay; _1669_: pay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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XXIII
The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame,
And glorious light of her
sunshyny
face, 200
To tell, were as to strive against the streame;
My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace,
Her heavenly lineaments for to enchace.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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This, however, does not amount to
saying that Whitman is a vile man, or a corrupt or
corrupting
writer; he is
none of these.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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For thee there is no peril, Aurunculeia, that any woman
more beauteous from Ocean
springing
shall ever see the light of day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Quem colent homines magis
Caelitum?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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in her hand
Their
destinies?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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As that lithe foot's timid tips
Quick she dips,
Passing, in the
rippling
pool,
(Blush, oh!
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Ah me, though never an ear for song, thou hast
A
tireless
tooth for songsters: thus of late
Thou camest, Death, thou Cat!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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My song take flight,
present
yourself
to her sweetly,
but for her might
Arnaut might strive more lightly.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Or rather, we should simply say that the production of epic
poetry depends on the occurrence (always an
accidental
occurrence) of
creative genius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_
Envirounynge
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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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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Putnam's Sons 1911
Rivers to the Sea The Macmillan Company 1915
Love Songs The Macmillan Company 1917
Flame and Shadow The Macmillan Company 1920
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
The Younger Quire Moods
Publishing
Co.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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They lived by the side of the great Lake
Pipple-Popple (one of the seven families, indeed, lived _in_ the lake), and
on the outskirts of the city of Tosh, which,
excepting
when it was quite
dark, they could see plainly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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) A Persian would naturally wish to vindicate a
distinguished Countryman; and a Sufi to enroll him in his own sect,
which already
comprises
all the chief Poets of Persia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And for to have of men preysing, 6955
We purchace, thurgh our flatering,
Of riche men, of gret poustee,
Lettres, to
witnesse
our bountee;
So that man weneth, that may us see,
That alle vertu in us be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Carjat lui-meme, par trop juge et partie, ni celui des
encore assez nombreux survivants d'une scene assurement peu glorieuse
pour Rimbaud, mais demesurement grossie et
denaturee
jusqu'a la plus
complete calomnie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Speak,
stubborn
earth, and tell me where, O where
Hast thou a symbol of her golden hair?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Hence, thou suborned
informer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The Battle should, I believe, be compared with three other battles; a
battle the Sidhe are said to fight when a person is being taken away
by them; a battle they are said to fight in November for the harvest;
the great battle the Tuatha De Danaan fought,
according
to the Gaelic
chroniclers, with the Fomor at Moy Tura, or the Towery Plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Or an Eye of gifts & graces
showring
fruits & coined gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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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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Beyond the city, gardens hidden from view
Sent odors of sweet
blossoms
on the breeze
And singing sounded through the far off trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the material to the order shown here,
indicating
the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the preceding section [ending '.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"Well," murmured one, "Let whoso make or buy,
My Clay with long
Oblivion
is gone dry:
But fill me with the old familiar Juice,
Methinks I might recover by and by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The "fifty sisters" are the
fifty Danaides, who, for slaying their husbands, were
condemned
to pour
water forever into a vessel full of holes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_The gods to kings the
judgment
give to sway:
The subjects only glory to obey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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[294] The
initiated
were thought to enjoy greater happiness after death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Thou olden ducal
dungeon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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The well in the Forum at which
they had
alighted
was pointed out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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No one will
recognise
you if you use
The side door by the corner.
| 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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Galsworthy
and the London _Chronicle_:--"Russia--America.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Har: Presume not on thy God, what e're he be,
Thee he regards not, owns not, hath cut off
Quite from his people, and
delivered
up
Into thy Enemies hand, permitted them
To put out both thine eyes, and fetter'd send thee 1160
Into the common Prison, there to grind
Among the Slaves and Asses thy comrades,
As good for nothing else, no better service
With those, thy boyst'rous locks, no worthy match
For valour to assail, nor by the sword
Of noble Warriour, so to stain his honour,
But by the Barbers razor best subdu'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Ah then at times I
drooping
sit,
And spend many an anxious hour;
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning's bower,
Worn through with the dreary shower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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At
Naw Rooz (their New Year's Day) the Snow was lying in patches on the
Hills and in the shaded Vallies, while the Fruit-trees in the Garden
were budding beautifully, and green Plants and Flowers springing upon
the Plains on every side--
'And on old Hyems' Chin and icy Crown
An odorous Chaplet of sweet Summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set--'--
Among the Plants newly appear'd I recognized some Acquaintances I had
not seen for many a Year: among these, two
varieties
of the Thistle; a
coarse species of the Daisy, like the Horse-gowan; red and white
clover; the Dock; the blue Cornflower; and that vulgar Herb the
Dandelion rearing its yellow crest on the Banks of the Water-courses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| 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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"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 |
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A fire was once within my brain;
And in my head a dull, dull pain;
And
fiendish
faces one, two, three,
Hung at my breasts, and pulled at me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My heart, its wishes
trembling
to unfold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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As given here it has been
corrected
by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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EULALIE
I DWELT alone
In a world of moan,
And my soul was a
stagnant
tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride--
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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But will is
only a mode of animal mind; moral qualities also are such as only a
human being can possess; to attribute them to the principle of the
universe is to annex to it properties
incompatible
with any possible
definition of its nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Speaking comparatively, it may be said that the
function of Homeric epic has been to create imperishable symbolism for
the actual courageous consciousness of life, but the duty of "literary"
epic has been to develop this function,
answerably
to the development of
life itself, into symbolism of some conscious _idea_ of life--something
at once more formalized and more subtilized than the primary virtue of
courage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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With reverence to Your
Lordship
be it spoken,
He's like one of those long-legged grasshoppers,
Who flits and jumps about, and sings for ever _50
The same old song i' the grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Where once the tangled forest stood,--
Where
flourished
once rank weed and thorn,--
Behold the path-traced, peaceful wood,
The cotton white, the yellow corn.
| 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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But who
yieldeth
herself unto advowtry impure,
Ah!
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Do you feel the fierce paradise
Like stifled laughter that slips
To the
unanimous
crease's depths
From the corner of your lips?
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The
following
is another instance of
the kind in the Doge Marco Barbarigo: he was succeeded by his brother
Agostino Barbarigo, whose chief merit is here mentioned.
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From an early period they had been
admitted
to some share
of political power.
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No more of
wailing!
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Euripides - Electra |
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We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs
Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves,
But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower
Above us in their beauty, and must reign
In right thereof; for 'tis the eternal law
That first in beauty should be first in might:
Yea, by that law, another race may drive 230
Our
conquerors
to mourn as we do now.
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Keats |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Who on the whole will read a work today,
Of moderate sense, with any
pleasure?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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dum non magna ratis, uicinis sueta moueri
litoribus tutosque sinus
percurrere
remis,
nunc primum dat uela notis portusque fidelis
linquit et Adriacas audet temptare procellas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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one owns a United States
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Caeli, tibi: nam tua nobis 5
perfecta
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Latin - Catullus |
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As all the world knows my
obligations to the late Earl of Glencairn, I would wish to show as
openly that my heart glows, and will ever glow, with the most grateful
sense and
remembrance
of his lordship's goodness.
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Robert Burns |
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ists, like those two
brothers
mentioned in Locke's
second ''Letters on Toleration/'* so expert in
logic as to convert one another, and then, unhap-
pily, not expert enough to convert one another
back again — and all without any suspicion of in-
sincerity.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"[518] Do you note the
harmonious
rhythm?
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Aristophanes |
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Have not all soules thought
For many ages, that our body is wrought
Of Ayre, and Fire, and other
Elements?
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[656] In
whirling
roars
How fierce the tide boils down these clasping shores!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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With sable hats whose shade
Falls from the cord of gold
On every time-worn face;
With
tattered
flags, in black enrolled,
Beneath whose folds they warred of old;
Forward, firmly arrayed,
With a sombre, martial grace;
So the Grand Army moves
Commanded by the dead,
Following him whose name it loves,
Whose voice in life its footsteps led.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Rilke - Poems |
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It
is also
uncertain
whether he knew, when he entered the service of Lin,
that this prince was about to take up arms against the Emperor.
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Li Po |
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