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Thread #158652   Message #3754463
Posted By: GUEST,~Q~
29-Nov-15 - 01:05 PM
Thread Name: James Clarence Mangan: thread of his own
Subject: RE: James Clarence Mangan: thread of his own
Thanks for establishing this thread honouring The Man in the Cloak. One exotic miniature that issued from Mangan's pen is "Lamii's Apology For His Nonsense", which bears the subtitle "From the Ottoman" and thus purports to translate an original Oriental verse; however, with its exquisite humour with melancholy interblent in "each Imperishable drop", it is assuredly all Mangan.

I was a parrot mute and happy, till,
   Once on a time,
The fowlers pierced the wood and caught me;
Then blame me not: for I but echo still
   In wayward rhyme
The melancholy wit they taught me.

https://manganpaper.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/news-print-as-poem-fodder/