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II. MIDDLE-SEA AND LEAR-SEA
96.14 "Up she looms" Here, or 16 lines previously?, according to HG begins 'the whole argosy of mankind' to end on p. 182.
The text of the poem refers to the thirty-foot bronze statue of Athena Promachos that dominates the Acropolis in the fifth century B.C. and is
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102.23* ". . . and must go a compass'
Here David Jones draws a sketch indicating a ship reversing its course or, in nautical language, going a compass.
103.11 "Clōse-cōwled, in hĭs mâst hēād stāll the sôlităry cântŏr"
This line Jones scans for syllabic quantity, and possibly for stress (mâst, sôlitary, cântor).
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