"A Game of Chess" Annotations
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===Virgil=== | ===Virgil=== | ||
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| + | In vials of ivory and coloured glass | ||
| + | Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, | ||
| + | Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused | ||
| + | And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air | ||
| + | That freshened from the window, these ascended | ||
| + | In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, | ||
| + | Flung their smoke into the laquearia, | ||
| + | Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling. | ||
| + | Lines 86-93 | ||
| + | Taken from Virgil's ''Aeneid'' | ||
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| + | From a translation by Robert Fagles translated works of the ''Aneid'' | ||
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| + | They light the lamps, | ||
| + | hung from the coffered ceilings sheathed in gilt, | ||
| + | and blazing torches burn the night away. | ||
==Stanzas 97-103== | ==Stanzas 97-103== | ||
