Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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I know, I know I should not see
The season's glorious show,
Nor would its
brightness
shine for me;
Nor its wild music flow;
But if, around my place of sleep,
The friends I love should come to weep,
They might not haste to go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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THE
TRAGEDIE
OF MACBETH.
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| Question: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[Sidenote: Through the oppression of grief I had
forgotten
these
truths, but was not wholly ignorant of them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
| Guess: |
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blake-poems |
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--And whom doth he intend
To name as his
successor?
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The broken chain lies rusting on the door,
And noisome weeds have split the marble floor:
Here lurks the snake, and here the lizards run
By the stone lions
blinking
in the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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513_
Sterne,
_Tristram
Shandy_, ii.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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| Question: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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An' ay she win't, an' ay she swat,
I wat she made nae jaukin';
'Till
something
held within the pat,
Guid L--d!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Tomorrow
we depart from Cracow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Lift o'er the threshold with good omen thy glistening feet, and go through
the
polished
gates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Perish the race of
Godunov!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"Sweep
completed
in the fairway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
God's kindly earth
Is
kindlier
than men know,
And the red rose would but blow more red,
The white rose whiter blow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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He has
yielded!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
ORESTES
Thou
vauntest
thee--but o'er no final fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
But Bishen Singh, who approached with a respectful salaam, had never
heard of it, and he
listened
with a puzzled face and obviously feigned
interest to Orde's account of its aims and objects, finally shaking his
vast white turban with great significance when he learned that it was
promoted by certain pleaders named by Orde, and by educated natives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
]
How well I knew this
stealthy
wolf would howl,
When in the eagle talons ta'en in air!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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His known patrons include
Geoffrey
II, Duke of Brittany and Dalfi d'Alvernha; he was at one time in Poitiers at the court of Richard I of England, on whose death he wrote this planh.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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But, poor devils, suppose our
husbands
go away and leave us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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belle comme la neige,
Oui, tu mourus, enfant, par un fleuve
emporte!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Throughout
the field rally his companies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
"
And instantly the seven young Guinea Pigs rushed with such extreme force
against the lettuce-plant, and hit their heads so vividly against its
stalk, that the concussion brought on directly an incipient transitional
inflammation of their noses, which grew worse and worse and worse and
worse, till it
incidentally
killed them all seven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
[Sidenote A: He asks
permission
to leave the table; he says,]
[Sidenote B: it is not meet that Arthur should be active in the matter,]
[Sidenote C: while so many bold ones sit upon bench.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
'Hee' is
required
both by rhyme and reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And swung their
frenzied
hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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he little thought how ill should speed
That fond attempt, for, once provok'd, the Gods
Are not with ease
conciliated
again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Renown'd
Ulysses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
Ah poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats,
Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me,
(For what is my life or any man's life but a conflict with foes, the
old, the
incessant
war?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
We thank your
Lordship
and your loyal city.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Awa, thou
flaunting
God of Day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Stories and jests from field and town and port,
And odd
neglected
scraps of history
From everywhere, for you were of the sort,
Cool and refined, who like rough company:
Carter and barmaid, hawker and bargee,
Wise pensioners and boxers
With whom you drank, and listened
To legends of old revelry and sport
And customs of the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
can I believe then,
Those ancient temples,
sculptures
classic, could none of them retain her?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
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 |
|
And then I go the furthest off
To
counteract
a knock;
Then draw my little letter forth
And softly pick its lock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
"
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
MATTHEW: Indeed, here are a number of fine
speeches
in this book.
| 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 |
|
if,--I say you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps
compounded
am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
--Dine with Provost Fall, an eminent
merchant, and most
respectable
character, but undescribable, as he
exhibits no marked traits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Through all these
poems there sounds like a subdued accompaniment a note of
gratitude
for
the ability to thus vision the world, to be sunk in the music of all
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
'Vilany, at the biginning, 2175
I wol,' sayd Love, 'over alle thing,
Thou leve, if thou wolt [not] be
Fals, and
trespasse
ageynes me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
suggests the son is
continuing
his father?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Sound on, ye
heavenly
strains, that bliss restore me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Their deeds of mercy and of arms,
In
peaceful
days, or war's alarms,
When thou dost show.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Som say no evil thing that walks by night
In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen,
Blew meager Hag, or
stubborn
unlaid ghost,
That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time,
No goblin, or swart faery of the mine,
Hath hurtfull power o're true virginity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
It will be twain
Who go
together
to this height of mastery
Over the world, governing it as song
Is govern'd by the heart of him who sings;
But never one by means of one shall reach it:
Not man alone, nor woman alone, but each
Enabling each, together, twain in one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
If you
continue
she
will take you for one now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Lo, see how the
vanished
years,
In robes outworn lean over heaven's rim;
And from the water, smiling through her tears,
Remorse arises, and the sun grows dim;
And in the east, her long shroud trailing light,
List, O my grief, the gentle steps of Night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
could this arm (I thus aloud rejoin'd)
From that vast bulk
dislodge
thy bloody mind,
And send thee howling to the realms of night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Additional terms
will be linked to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works
posted with the
permission
of the copyright holder found at the
beginning of this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
HAS she as usual matters that demand
Attendance
at the cloister to be scanned?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its
thousand
feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The bulk in the poetry in Les Fleurs du
Mal was written before
Baudelaire
had read Poe, though not published in
book form until 1857.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
" Saadi was born in
1189 at Shiraz and was a reputed
descendant
from Ali, Mahomet's
son-in-law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Did not poor birds with
watching
rounds
Pick up the insects from your grounds,
Did they not tend your rising grain,
You then might sow to reap in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
This
exquisite
fragment is printed in
Coleridge's works in a prefatory note to the prose "Wanderings of Cain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
His voice will one day be
potential or magisterial wherever the English
language
is spoken--that is
to say, in the four corners of the earth; and in his own American
hemisphere, the uttermost avatars of democracy will confess him not more
their announcer than their inspirer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
"--think some:
Others--"How blest the
Paradise
to come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Thine is the bounty that
prospered
our sowing,
Thine is the bounty that nurtured our corn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
And thou, send up to us the
righteous
boon
For which we pray: thine aids be heaven and earth,
And justice guide the right to victory,
[_To the Chorus_
Thus have I prayed, and thus I shed these streams,
And follow ye the wont, and as with flowers
Crown ye with many a tear and cry the dirge,
Your lips ring out above the dead man's grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
I have
forgotten
her
We are here in a wood of little beeches
We challenged Death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
heaven and earth the raging chief defies;
What fury in his breast, what
lightning
in his eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
' and fled, as flies
A troop of snowy doves athwart the dusk,
When some one batters at the dovecote-doors,
Disorderly
the women.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's
lightning
bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Powder becomes, like petticoat,
Your little, gray old woman:
Naked I sit upon my goat,
And show the
untrimmed
human.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Some to _Conceit_ alone their taste confine,
And glitt'ring
thoughts
struck out at ev'ry line; 290
Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Its fair women have become the brown earth, still more, their
artifice
of powder and mascara.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
If thought is life
And
strength
and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
He wheels his mares, who at their
frontlets
chafe
And yearn to charge upon the gates amain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
ai
schullen
do; miracles grete & ryue;
Bot we ne fynde nou?
| 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 |
|
LAWRENCE
Snake
HAROLD MONRO
Thistledown (from 'Real Property')
Real
Property
" " "
Unknown Country " " "
ROBERT NICHOLS
Night Rhapsody (from 'Aurelia')
November " "
J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Victorinus 182 Gaisford:
_Pelliaco_
(_-to_
G) ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
I only knew what haunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
THE BOSS
Skilled to pull wires, he baffles Nature's hope,
Who sure
intended
him to stretch a rope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
On dirait qu'ils
penetrent
le verre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
" the sage replied,
"Dost thou not mark a
gleaming
through the tide,
Of divers brilliances?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Thou in one ruin sword and sceptre mixed,
Then
outraged
love, and pity's claim despised.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
130
"What shall I do now?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
)
From the stump of the arm, the
amputated
hand,
I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood,
Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv'd neck and side falling head,
His eyes are closed, his face is pale, he dares not look on the
bloody stump,
And has not yet look'd on it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
]
& he ful radly vp ros, &
ruchched
hym fayre,
368 [A] Kneled doun bifore ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
"Time was a
Shepherd
with four sheep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
"
And another cried, "In what cause dost thou sacrifice
thyself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
You
persuaded
the housewife that her dish-pan was of silver
And her husband an image of pure gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed
upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the Baptized God.
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Some means to please they've got, you will confess;
But none with
certainty
the charm possess.
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La Fontaine |
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And I said, "I will seek that city and the
blessedness
thereof.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A soul
confined
by bars and bands,
Cries, help!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Love to my mind
recalling
that sweet thought,
The ancient confidant our lives between,
Well comforts me, and says I ne'er have been
So near as now to what I hoped and sought.
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Petrarch |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical
Quatrains
are in
the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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very bad; it is quite
impossible to count on the
discipline
of robbers.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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