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| | "The Laurels Are Cut Down, By Theodore de Banville," Translation by Eli Siegel |
 | | Within the sound of this line, of these words, is the message of many autumns to a self not sure of where it is in the world. |
 | | This Banville does; the consequence is fine for poetry in general. |
 | | And when poetry in general is at its finest, it always refutes somehow, somewhat, the idea of the world as a desolating enemy to man.—Housman used the first line of the poem, and Banville may have been instigated by some words he met. |
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