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Old 03-25-2020, 07:11 AM   #39
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A couple of my favourites which are graven into memory (a few lines only --- easy enough to find with a search) and their significance to me:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree,
Where Alph the sacred river ran, down to a sunless sea...


Always loved that, and recently bought a copy of Stephen W. Beyer's The Enchanted Forest which examines it in depth, comparing it to Wieland's Oberon as a source --- on that basis, I read a facsimile copy of John Quincy Adams' translation.

I bought my soldier boy a blade, in far Damascus fashioned well,
Whom first that glittering falchion felled....


Yeah, I'm an incurable romantic.
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