Ovid old by Geoffrey Brock - The New Criterion

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November 2004

Ovid old

Burke

was right!

                            As a pale gauze
rose over Asia, he awoke
             surrounded by, not Rome,
                            but huts, hanging
like tattered effigies of home
             from threads of cedar smoke;
                            Europe was dark.
The woman by him also woke,
             gently helped him to s ...

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Geoffrey Brock is the author Weighing Light and the translator of several books from the Italian.

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