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His performance, therefore, might have been termed very respectable by abler judges than the hermit, especially as the knight threw into the notes now a degree of spirit, and now of plaintive enthusiasm, which gave force and energy to the verses which he sung.

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"Some of these verses are definite in meaning," it says, "and others are ambiguous."

I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation.

I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices, of verses, couplets, entire songs almost formed whole, materialized in front of me as if they'd been bottled up inside me for many, many years.

He recites verses from the Koran, begging his God to live.

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