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Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"
"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Allan Poe
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Alex Dorman (3/11/2008 11:23:00 PM)
I think the poem's about anything worth having. You go out to look for it, have not the easiest of times, and then realize it's not something to be found. It's something to be taken. And you 'ride, boldly ride' through whatever dark valley you must, to get it, if you really want it.
Seems like that to me, just from experience, or an extreme lack thereof. |
Derek Laforest (2/25/2008 11:29:00 PM)
thTihs poem is off the foshezeeeeeeeeeee |
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