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Occasional Verse

A translation of the French vers d’occasion (literally, verse of the moment or occasion).This a poem written to commemorate a specific occasion, such as Yeats’ “Easter 1916” or, possibly, Donne’s “Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day”.

 


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