Friday, January 3, 2003

Bronze Trumpets And Sea Water - On Turning Latin Into English Comments

Rating: 2.9

Alembics turn to stranger things
Strange things, but never while we live
Shall magic turn this bronze that sings
To singing water in a sieve.
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Elinor Morton Wylie
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Julia Griffin 30 March 2009

I think the fifth line should read 'trumpeters' (which scans, unlike 'trumpets') .

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