"A Game of Chess" Annotations
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===Ovid=== | ===Ovid=== | ||
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| + | Above the antique mantel was displayed | ||
| + | As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene | ||
| + | The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king | ||
| + | So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale | ||
| + | Filled all the desert with inviolable voice | ||
| + | And still she cried, and still the world pursues, | ||
| + | “Jug Jug” to dirty ears. | ||
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| + | From ''Metamorphosis, VI Philomela'' | ||
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