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Old 11-07-2018, 10:37 AM   #8
Rapunzel
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Here's a snippet of "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson. My ereader's font settings are usually but not always Bookerly at 25pt. The poem cuts off near the end of the fifth stanza.

Code:
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<head>
	<title>Poem test</title>
	
	<style type="text/css">
		p {
		  margin: 0;
		  padding-bottom: 10pt;
		  text-indent: 15pt;
		}
		
		p.hang {
		  padding: 0;
		  margin-left: 15pt;
		  text-indent: -15pt;
		}
		
		div.blockwrapper {
		  text-align: center;
		}
		
		div.blockcontent {
		  display: inline-block;
		  text-align: left;
		}
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	<div class="blockwrapper">
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			<p class="hang">“It was the ranger Arvid rode</p>
			<p class="hang">homeward through the hills</p>
			<p class="hang">among the shadowy shiverleafs,</p>
			<p class="hang">along the chiming rills.</p>
			<p><i>The dance weaves under the firethorn.</i></p>

			<p class="hang">“The night wind whispered around him</p>
			<p class="hang">with scent of brok and rue.</p>
			<p class="hang">Both moons rose high above him</p>
			<p class="hang">and hills aflash with dew.</p>
			<p><i>The dance weaves under the firethorn.</i></p>

			<p class="hang">“And dreaming of that woman</p>
			<p class="hang">who waited in the sun,</p>
			<p class="hang">he stopped, amazed by starlight,</p>
			<p class="hang">and so he was undone.</p>
			<p><i>The dance weaves under the firethorn.</i></p>

			<p class="hang">“For there beneath a barrow</p>
			<p class="hang">that bulked athwart a moon,</p>
			<p class="hang">the Outling folk were dancing</p>
			<p class="hang">in glass and golden shoon.</p>
			<p><i>The dance weaves under the firethorn.</i></p>

			<p class="hang">“The Outling folk were dancing</p>
			<p class="hang">like water, wind and fire</p>
			<p class="hang">to frosty-ringing harpstrings,</p>
			<p class="hang">and never did they tire.</p>
			<p><i>The dance weaves under the firethorn.</i></p>

			<p class="hang">“To Arvid came she striding</p>
			<p class="hang">from where she watched the dance,</p>
			<p class="hang">the Queen of Air and Darkness,</p>
			<p class="hang">with starlight in her glance.</p>
			<p><i>The dance weaves under the firethorn.</i></p>

			<p class="hang">“With starlight, love and terror</p>
			<p class="hang">in her immortal eye,</p>
			<p class="hang">the Queen of Air and Darkness—”</p>
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