11 June 2008

larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (greek poetry is sexy)
Further proof that I am not Sir Thomas Wyatt: When I versify a prose pony of Petrarch's Rime Sparce 190, I get:
A bright white doe with two golden horns
Appeared before me in a grassy glade
Between two rivers, in a laurel's shade,
As the sun rose on an unripe morn.

Her appearance was so sweet and forthright
I left off every task to follow her,
As misers in pursuit of the gold they prefer
Sweeten their exertions with delight.

"Touch me not," a beautiful collar stated,
The letters made of diamonds and topaz upon
Her neck: "It's Caesar's pleasure that I be free."

The sun fell past midday rapidly;
My watching eyes were tired, but not sated,
When I tripped into water, and she was gone.
In Wyatt's hands, the same poem becomes the masterpiece "Whoso list to hunt, I know where is a hind."

Combined with prior evidence, I think that proves things beyond any doubt.

---L.

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