{"id":634,"date":"2010-12-29T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2010-12-28T00:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T04:37:46","slug":"used-first-to-praise-the-sea-or-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/used-first-to-praise-the-sea-or-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Used First to Praise the Sea or Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At fifty generations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 end<br \/>\n(And such abysses time affords us all)<br \/>\nI return to the further shore of a great river<br \/>\nThat the vikings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dragons did not reach,<br \/>\nTo the harsh and arduous words<br \/>\nThat, with a mouth now turned to dust,<br \/>\nI used in my Northumbrian, Mercian days<br \/>\nBefore I became a Haslam or Borges.<br \/>\nOn Saturday we read that Julius Caesar<br \/>\nWas the first man out of Romeburg to strip the veil from England;<br \/>\nBefore the clusters swell again on the vine<br \/>\nI shall have heard the voice of the nightingale<br \/>\nWith its enigma, and the elegy of the warrior twelve<br \/>\nThat surround the tomb of their king.<br \/>\nSymbols of other symbols, variations<br \/>\nOn the English or German future seem these words to me<br \/>\nThat once on a time were images<br \/>\nA man made use of praising the sea or sword;<br \/>\nTomorrow they will live again,<br \/>\nTomorrow <em>fyr<\/em> will not be <em>fire<\/em> but that form<br \/>\nOf a tamed and changing god<br \/>\nIt has been given to none to see without an ancient dread.<\/p>\n<p>Praised be the infinite<br \/>\nMesh of effects and causes<br \/>\nWhich, before it shews me the mirror<br \/>\nIn which I shall see no-one or I shall see another,<br \/>\nGrants me now this contemplation pure<br \/>\nOf a language of the dawn.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash;Jorge Luis Borges, &#8220;On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar,&#8221; from <em>Dreamtigers<\/em><br \/>\ntranslated by Harold Morland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At fifty generations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 end (And such abysses time affords us all) I return to the further shore of a great river That the vikings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dragons did not reach, To the harsh and arduous words That, with a mouth now turned to dust, I used in my Northumbrian, Mercian days Before I became a Haslam or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2558,539,2549,538],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-borges","tag-metaphor-for-metaphors","tag-poetry","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->