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==T.S. Eliot Reading "A Game of Chess"==
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==Stanza 77-96==

===William Shakespeare===

     The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
     Glowed on the marble, where the glass
     Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
     Lines 77-79
The lines here are from the play ''Antony and Cleopatra II.ii''

     Enobarbus
     The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
     Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
     Purple the sails, and so perfumed that

===Virgil===

==Stanzas 97-103==

===John Milton===

===Ovid===

==Stanzas 104-110==

==Stanzas 111-127==

==Stanzas 128-18==

==Stanzas 139-172==

===William Shakespeare===

==References==

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