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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8757102" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>I'll see if I can find it...there was a poem in my middle school English Lit textbook. I can't remember the author or the title, so it might take me a minute to hunt it down.</p><p></p><p>But anyway, the author was sitting on the edge of a fjord in Newfoundland or Iceland or somewhere similar, listening to the fishermen below as they used bugles to communicate with each other. The sounds of their bugles echoing off of the castle-like cliffs of the fjords inspired him to write a really haunting and beautiful poem about loss. And it just so happened that I stumbled upon this poem while I was reading <em>CM1: Test of the Warlords,</em> a D&D module set in the imaginary kingdom of Norwold that resembles that same, real-world place. The two are now completely intertwined in my brain.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Found it.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">"The Splendor Falls" by Alfred Lord Tennyson</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">The splendor falls on castle walls</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">And snowy summits old in story;</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">The long light shakes across the lakes,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"> And the wild cataract leaps in glory.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"> And thinner, clearer, farther going!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">O, sweet and far from cliff and scar</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"> The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">Blow, bugles; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">O love, they die in yon rich sky,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"> They faint on hill or field or river;</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">Our echoes roll from soul to soul,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"> And grow forever and forever.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8757102, member: 50987"] I'll see if I can find it...there was a poem in my middle school English Lit textbook. I can't remember the author or the title, so it might take me a minute to hunt it down. But anyway, the author was sitting on the edge of a fjord in Newfoundland or Iceland or somewhere similar, listening to the fishermen below as they used bugles to communicate with each other. The sounds of their bugles echoing off of the castle-like cliffs of the fjords inspired him to write a really haunting and beautiful poem about loss. And it just so happened that I stumbled upon this poem while I was reading [I]CM1: Test of the Warlords,[/I] a D&D module set in the imaginary kingdom of Norwold that resembles that same, real-world place. The two are now completely intertwined in my brain. EDIT: Found it. [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]"The Splendor Falls" by Alfred Lord Tennyson[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]The splendor falls on castle walls[/COLOR][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]And snowy summits old in story;[/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]The long light shakes across the lakes,[/COLOR][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)] And the wild cataract leaps in glory.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear,[/COLOR][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)] And thinner, clearer, farther going![/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]O, sweet and far from cliff and scar[/COLOR][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)] The horns of Elfland faintly blowing![/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying, Blow, bugles; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O love, they die in yon rich sky,[/COLOR][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)] They faint on hill or field or river;[/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Our echoes roll from soul to soul,[/COLOR][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)] And grow forever and forever.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=5][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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