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I am Miss Pancake Taylor. I have come from very far away to take care of my family Craig and Zita and Niamh and Emmet. Sometimes I have helpers; my friends the Blackthorn-Badgers. They are very old Scotsmen. I am very glad to meet you.

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

    MY spirit is too weak--mortality
        Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep
        And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep
    Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die
    Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
        Yet tis a gentle luxury to weep
        That I have not the cloudy winds to sweep
    Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye.
    Such dim-conceived glories of the brain
        Bring round the heart an indescribable feud;
    So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,
        Which mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
    Wasting of old Time--with a billowy main--
        A sun--a shadow of a magnitude.

        John Keats

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