Wednesday, March 12, 2014
The Last Oracle Again
Jay Macpherson (1931-2012), "The Oracle Declines," Welcoming Disaster: Poems 1971-4 (Toronto: Saannes Publications, 1974), p. 11:
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Julian Apostate, sendingHat tip: Ian Jackson.
Late to Delphi — "Tell the king,
Phoebus has no more his chapel,
Mantic laurel, talking spring.
Level with the ground is lying
Work of craftsmen, columned stone;
And the ever-prattling waters,
Even they are sunk and gone."
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