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  "thread": {
    "id": 127,
    "subject": "Dr. Island poetry",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-08-03T14:33:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-08-03T14:33:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0003-0197@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-08-03T14:33:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dr. Island poetry",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Has anyone tracked down the poetry quoted in \"The Death of Dr. Island?\" The\nepigraph is from Hopkins and cited, but there are three fragments, uncited,\nquoted.\n\nAnd missing thee, I walk unseen\nOn the dry smooth-shaven green\nTo behold the wandering moon,\nRiding near her highest noon,\nLike one that has been led astray\nThrough the heaven's wide pathless way.\n\nI'm clueless, though it's got to be fairly modern despite the\n\"thee\"---maybe an antiquarian like de la Mare, though I'm not sure he's in\npublic domain yet.\n\nThe mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns\nAnd winding glades high up like ways to Heaven,\nThe slender coco's drooping crown of plumes,\nThe lightening flash of insect and of bird,\nThe lustre of the long convolvuses\nThat coil'd around the stately stems, and ran\nEv'n to the limit of the land, the glows\nAnd glories of the broad belt of the world,\nAll these he saw.\n\nI was so certain that this was from Shelley's -Alastor- that I read it\n(Alastor) through twice, incredulous not to find it. Well, it's got to be\nRomantic, it's a narrative poem....\n\nSeas are cold tonight...\nStretching over Sado island\nSilent clouds of stars.\n\nThat's a haiku. Sado is a Japanese island.\n\nWell, they're all concerned with nature, the earth and the heavens. They\ncould all be Wolfe's own pastiches (the -Alastor- one is awesomely good, if\nso--I worship that \"convolvuses\"). But if they're not, I'm quite curious.\n\n-alga-"
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