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Article: Museum accessions.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
- Author:
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They saw the gleaning river seaward flow
From the inner land; far off, three mountain-tops,
Three silent pinnacles of aged snow,
Stood sunset-flushed; and, dew'd with showery drops,
Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
When Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote these lines in the "Lotos-Eaters" (1832), one wonders if he visualized a scene as majestic as that which Thomas Moran, inspired by it, painted some sixty years later. The poem is one of the poet laureate's best, and Moran has done it justice. The lotus-eaters were Odysseus's Greek sailors far from home, seduced by the exotic potions of the North Africans (Lotophagi).
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