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Gildor Inglorion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:36 PM
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Help with a poem?
I can't find the rest of this poem or the author. I've googled it every way I can think of, and no luck. Does anyone know who wrote it and where I might find the rest?

..."such Helen was, and who would blame the boy,
Who in so great a fire consumed his Troy?"
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:40 PM
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1. ya got me
where did you find this bit?
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:43 PM
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2. There's a passage from Goethe's Faust that is similar
but it isn't close enough I think, unless you have it quite wrong :)

CHIRON. Why ... woman’s beauty is an idle phrase,
The arid image of a comely creature;
That being only can I praise,
Welling with life and joyous nature.
Beauty may be its own delight,
Rut grace has overpowering might;
Such Helen had, whom once I bore.


http://www.theonewolf.com/acttwo.html
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