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Desmond Skirrow (1924-76) uses but twelve well-chosen words in Ode on a Grecian Urn summarized...
...civil war when Republican forces shot hundreds of Nationalist prisoners there, the local voting monitor politely ushered a trooper of the still feared Civil Guard out of the schoolroom polling station. "He has a gun, and he does not belong here," said one of the party observers behind the urn...
...Keats' urn was wrong, of course. Believe it or not, a quite relevant beauty exists outside and independent of VERITAS, some of it captured in art galleries and museums. Assuming an earth bigger and more well-rounded than exams and the Yard, bounded by something farther than med school, one "needs to know about it". Sodedicated to the aforementioned pot, Art of the Week...
Beyond the receiving line was the bier. A red party flag was draped over the Chairman's familiar gray tunic. His face looked old, but also unwrinkled and at rest. Unlike at Chou En-lai's funeral last January, when only an urn containing the late Premier's ashes was displayed, the Chairman's body has been brought before the Chinese people for a final heroic display. Many believed that, like Lenin, Mao would be embalmed and enshrined in a special mausoleum. As they would before an emperor of old -or a father-the Chinese wept...
...Monticello. Not having been to Florence, he had never seen the original, which he knew through engravings and plasters. It is pleasant to see the Towneley Vase, that once renowned Attic mar ble of the 1st century A.D. on which Keats based several lines of Ode to a Grecian Urn. But Jefferson never saw it, and (as the catalogue admits) would probably have disliked the "licentious mysticism" of its Bacchic figures...