Footnote: Comparative Literature, 1

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Seryddwr

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Formal poems are like

great momuments (Horace liked

bronze; I like stone). These

tanka are like the small blocks,

bearing the builder's own mark.

Kyakuchuu

[jlc]

Author's Notes/Comments:

cf. Horace, Ode 3; and the Mark Master degree in the York Rite of Freemasonry.