Thursday, January 1, 2004

Hero And Leander Comments

Rating: 2.7

See you the towers, that, gray and old,
Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold,
Steep sternly fronting steep?
The Hellespont beneath them swells,
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Friedrich Schiller
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Daniel Platt 02 March 2005

This is a weak translation; the meter is inconsistent, and I think a greater effort should be made to preserve the imagery and content of the original.

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Friedrich Schiller

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