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Revision as of 15:30, 19 January 2014
- dumb
- tumble
- my optics: my eyes
- myopic:
- The rhythm of the text is set to the song, "The Shandon Bells", an Irish song (1860) by Francis Sylvester Mahon:
With deep affection and recollection, I often think of those Shandon bells. Whose sounds so wild would, in days of childhood, Fling round my cradle their magic spells.
