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Cornelia, mother of the Cracchi
TIL that Cornelia is seen by the state of Ohio as Ohio’s personification. I find it adorable, but can’t quite explain why. In any case, it makes me like Ohio more. The statue refers to her saying that her children are her jewels when asked why she doesn’t dress as nice as the other rich……
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Robert Rendall
His poems are hard to find online, and I’m not up to paying for a book to be shipped from UK (yet), but here are a couple to remember meanwhile. CRAGSMAN’S WIDOW He was aye vaigan b’ the shore, An’ climman round the craigs, Swappan among the auks, Or taakan whitemaa aiggs. It’s six year……
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Rewards of being social
As part of my attempt to interact with people I friended a person on DW solely based on their poetry taste and was rewarded with Edwin Muir’s The Horses. Barely a twelvemonth afterThe seven days war that put the world to sleep,Late in the evening the strange horses came.By then we had made our covenant……
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