[ilds] syllabary and codes

[slighcl]

On 2/28/2008 1:30 PM, william godshalk wrote:
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> But how do you construe the last two lines of the stanza? "When their 
> eyes met he felt dis-figured / It would have been simple---three paces 
> apart!"
Thanks for the limerick, Bill. I just swallowed "My Parsee Maid" as a 
cure against being all-too-serious about "The Persian Lady."  Curiouser 
and curiouser. . . .

To your question:  I /parse /that Persian as follows:  these two 
strangers were walking about on the beach, when suddenly across the 
shingle their glances met and he experienced feelings of being changed 
forever [or an excruciating, debilitating self-consciousness]; then if 
ever was the moment to speak to her, to make the overture; but alas!

This chap is some sort of diplomatic Andrea del Sarto, perhaps.

>         Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
>         Or what's a heaven for? All is silver-grey
>         Placid and perfect with my art: the worse!
>         I know both what I want and what might gain,
>         And yet how profitless to know, to sigh
>         "Had I been two, another and myself,
>         "Our head would have o'erlooked the world!" No doubt.

        C&c.

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Charles L. Sligh
Department of English
Wake Forest University
slighcl at wfu.edu
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