Thanks Lizzie, though I can never hope to match the sonority of thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support…
I was thinking of these lines:
A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round
As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
Serv’d onely to discover sights of woe …
Must go back to Milton — haven’t really looked at his stuff since school, and several reads of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy doesn’t count!
Zenrinji 
Beautiful. The words match so well the picture.
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Grazie mille, Stefy, molto gentile!
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Non ė gentilezza. Sono complimenti meritati Salvo 🙂
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All that Italian — very Lucia & Georgie! As for your verse, I heard Miltonian undertones.
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Thanks Lizzie, though I can never hope to match the sonority of
thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support…
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I was thinking of these lines:
A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round
As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
Serv’d onely to discover sights of woe …
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Must go back to Milton — haven’t really looked at his stuff since school, and several reads of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy doesn’t count!
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Perhaps a future joint venture? I think I could do it in January (not teaching then).
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Ooh, that sounds tempting! Let me think, and I’ll get back to you!
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