Interesting. I always took the poem as E.D. rebuking junkets. He says that truth and beauty are brethren, and she allows him to think so. But she prefers beauty and is subtly contemptuous of his invocation of truth. But i'll have to think about your version, which seems pretty convincing off the bat.
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Date: 2006-10-25 08:56 pm (UTC)