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Someday a New Arthur
“Chasing Chaucer and Beowulf out of
the Curriculum”
-Spectator
Someday a new Merlin among
the ruins
Will give a new Arthur a
trove of hidden books:
Chaucer and Milton,
Shakespeare, Coleridge, Keats
And maybe even long silent
Malory
Someday a bold Arthur will
command his scribes
To copy for the people the
people’s words
Words long forbidden to
them by narrow tyrants
Making words free to all,
and letting in the sun 1
Someday a wise King Arthur
will reign again
Within the greatest empire
of all – the mind
1 Tennyson,
“The Coming of Arthur,” line 60
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