To him the other
continents arrive as contributions: he gives them
reception
for their sake
and his own sake.
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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Serious
literary
criticism has been dead in China since that time, and
the valuations then made are still accepted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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And then his
alchemy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Another of the Dunlops
served with
distinction
in India, where he rose to the rank of
General.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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But all I hear is silence,
And
something
that may be leaves or may be sea.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
These
principles
are not new; they
have fallen into desuetude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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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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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I hope to be at least a month with my friends, and to gain peace and
balance, and a less
troubled
heart, and a sweeter mood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Frae ilka danger keep him free,
And send me safe my
Somebody!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
septima lux uenit non
exhibitura
sequentem
(et stabat uacuo iam tibi Parca colo),
nec tamen ignauo stupuerunt uerba palato:
clamauit moriens lingua 'Corinna, uale!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
1575
I passe al that which
chargeth
nought to seye,
What!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
This man's name was Mellish, and he had lived for
fifteen years on land of his own, in Lower Bengal,
studying
cholera.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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For nought can blunt nor mar
The speech
oracular!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
_That Man is not to be deemed_ imperfect, _but a Being
suited to his_ place _and_ rank _in the creation,
agreeable
to the_ general Order _of things, and
conformable to_ Ends _and_ Relations _to him unknown_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The
Countess
Anna Fedorovna was seated before her mirror in her
dressing-room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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l paubres quan jai el ric ostal
No more than a beggar dare complain,
Estat ai gran sazo
I've felt, for so long, so
Raimbaut de
Vaqueiras
(c1155- fl.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Perchance
I, too, have rights, now veiled in darkness,--
Rights, which the heavy drapery of the scaffold
Now hides beneath its black and ample folds;
Rights which, if my intent deceive me not,
My sword shall one day rescue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He spake: and to confirm his words, out-flew
Millions
of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
Far round illumin'd hell: highly they rag'd
Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arm's
Clash'd on their sounding shields the din of war,
Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heav'n.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
I said to him,
"We now know more of thee than then;
We were but weak in
judgment
when,
With hearts abrim,
We clamoured thee that thou would'st please
Inflict on us thine agonies,"
I said to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Your wine locked up, your butler
strolled
abroad,
Or fish denied (the river yet unthawed),
If then plain bread and milk will do the feat,
The pleasure lies in you, and not the meat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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he caught on
a rock that ran out; the reef ground, the oars struck and
shivered
on
the jagged teeth, and the bows crashed and hung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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, in the
autumn, returning
afterwards
to Sockburn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
e but it
byholde?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
O'Connor, who
wrote a
pamphlet
named _The Good Grey Poet_; and Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
<
tu che forse vedra' il sole in breve,
s'ello non vuol qui tosto seguitarmi,
si di vivanda, che stretta di neve
non rechi la
vittoria
al Noarese,
ch'altrimenti acquistar non saria leve>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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>>
Mais Hippolyte alors, levant sa jeune tete:
--<< Je ne suis point ingrate et ne me repens pas,
Ma Delphine, je souffre et je suis inquiete,
Comme apres un nocturne et
terrible
repas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I am thy father's wedded wife;
And
underneath
the spreading tree
We two will live in honesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sed est et sancta et gravis
oratio, et castigata, et frequenter
vehemens
quoque.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
"
"And you did not
consent?
| 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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And I, the unknown son of a famous father, 945
Lag far behind even the
footsteps
of my mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Hymns of such sort pass away, wanting
prosodical
tact.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Golightly was nearly hysterical with rage and the chill and the mistake
and the handcuffs and the headache that the cut on his
forehead
had
given him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Who is it
Opposeth
me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
For of a truth
Neither by counsel did the primal germs
'Stablish themselves, as by keen act of mind,
Each in its proper place; nor did they make,
Forsooth, a compact how each germ should move;
But, lo, because primordials of things,
Many in many modes, astir by blows
From immemorial aeons, in motion too
By their own weights, have evermore been wont
To be so borne along and in all modes
To meet
together
and to try all sorts
Which, by combining one with other, they
Are powerful to create: because of this
It comes to pass that those primordials,
Diffused far and wide through mighty aeons,
The while they unions try, and motions too,
Of every kind, meet at the last amain,
And so become oft the commencements fit
Of mighty things--earth, sea, and sky, and race
Of living creatures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
quarters
of whete,
And an hundre?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Elle endort les plus cruels maux
Et
contient
toutes les extases;
Pour dire les plus longues phrases,
Elle n'a pas besoin de mots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
before we part,
The poet's
blessing
take,
Ere bleeds that aged heart,
Or child the woman make.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Contributions to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by
U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
But this
reverberated
praise is rather overstrained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice
threefold
array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Dead is Rollanz and that count Oliver,
The dozen peers whom Charle so cherished,
And of their Franks are twenty
thousand
dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
[The eloquent hypochondriasm of the concluding paragraph of this
letter, called forth the
commendation
of Lord Jeffrey, when he
criticised Cromek's Reliques of Burns, in the Edinburgh Review.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Then he
would with the help of an English-Rowley and Rowley-English Dictionary
(which he had laboriously compiled for himself out of the vocabulary
to Speght's _Chaucer_, Bailey's _Universal Etymological Dictionary_,
and Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_) translate the work
into what he probably thought was a very fair
imitation
of fifteenth
century language.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
'Tis an
antipathy
of thine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Dysorder
throughe oure hoaste 575
Is fleynge, borne onne wynges of AElla's name;
Styr, styr, mie lordes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
during my night
I, having become lusty,
wandered
about
in the midst of omens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Around this baton, in capricious
meanderings, stems and flowers twine and wanton; these, sinuous and
fugitive; those, hanging like bells or
inverted
cups.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
at a
comloker
kny3t neuer Kryst made,
hem ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
--
Dearest, forgive me being cruel to you,
You who are in life like a
heavenly
dream
In the evil sleep of a sinner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
A load your Atlas
shoulders
cannot lift?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Nay, 'tis too true;
therefore
he shall be king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Our
Emperour
has sent you here this brief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Meet me in the green glen,
By sweet briar bushes there;
Meet me by your own sen,
Where the wild thyme
blossoms
fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
FOUNDER OF THE "NEW
SHAKSPERE
SOCIETY,"
THE "CHAUCER SOCIETY," ETC.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
_378_, 454
Knight,
Professor
W.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
This is clear--
you fell on the downward slope,
you dragged a bruised thigh--you limped--
you
clutched
this larch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
"The king himself proclaimed her
peerless
beauty
Before the court,
And held it were to win a kiss his duty
To give a fort,
Or, more, to sign away all bright Dorado,
Tho' gold-plate tiled--
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
II
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the
treasure
of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
I rushed everywhere, encouraging our men,
Making these advance,
supporting
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
:
_eligit_
O || _indotatam_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
He has begun to get a
little
careless
lately.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"
I clipp'd him round the neck, for so he bade;
And noting time and place, he, when the wings
Enough were op'd, caught fast the shaggy sides,
And down from pile to pile
descending
stepp'd
Between the thick fell and the jagged ice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds,
Another still, and still another spreads;
Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace;
His country next; and next all human race;
Wide and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind
Take every creature in, of every kind;
Earth smiles around, with
boundless
bounty blest,
And Heaven beholds its image in his breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Only the Bishop walks serene,
Pleased with his church, pleased with his house,
Pleased with the sound of the
hammered
bell,
Beating his doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
But now to yow
rehersen
al his speche,
Or alle his woful wordes for to soune,
Ne bid me not, but ye wol see me swowne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The visualization is elevated to
the impersonal objective level which gives to the rhythm of these poems
an imperturbable calm, to the figures
presented
a monumental erectness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
That is the whistle of the wind--it is not my voice;
That is the fluttering, the
flattering
of the spray;
Those are the shadows of leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
The knight no more assails her with the spear;
But is resolved to plague the foe with fire:
He gripes the mace and thunders in her rear
With frequent blows, like tempest in its ire;
Nor leaves a moment to that monster fell
To strike one stroke in answer, ill or well;
LVII
And, while he chases her or holds at bay,
Smites her and venges many a foul affront,
Counsels the paladin, without delay,
To take the road which scales the
neighbouring
mount:
He took that proffered counsel and that way,
And without stop, or turning back his front,
Pricked furiously till he was out of sight;
Though hard to clamber was the rugged height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Or leave me here as now,
Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping,
screeching?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Thou needst never die;
Thou canst find alway
somewhere
some fond wife
To die for thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
HOST Mercy, the Baron
Herbert!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
There came a
drooping
maid with violets,
But the spirit grasped her arm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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He was taken,
inside the enemy's lines, and hanged as a spy,
regretting
that he
had but one life to lose for his country.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For flattering planets seemed to say
This child should ills of ages stay,
By
wondrous
tongue, and guided pen,
Bring the flown Muses back to men.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Nor lack there men to govern them, when blown
By
blustering
winds -- from islands not remote --
Sardinia or Corsica, of every rate,
Pilot and patron, mariner and mate.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes
landscape
or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I to my leader's side adher'd, mine eyes
With fixt and
motionless
observance bent
On their unkindly visage.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I do not regard them as litter, to be swept out,
but accept them as
suitable
straw or matting for the bottom of my
carriage.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their
uniforms
were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Or hawk the magic of her name about
Deaf doors and
dungeons
where no truth is brought ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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On this glad day
Give friend or
stranger
welcome.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
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T.S. Eliot |
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