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BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: HAMLET, by                    
First Line: Hamlet, whom the cracked brains of others importune, has made the
Last Line: "thrice I've made the tour of the world, and was sure I'd meet you there."
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet; Travel; Journeys; Trips


Hamlet, whom the cracked brains of others importune, has made the tour of the
world; but it avails him naught. He still sees Elsinore beneath the waning moon.

Hamlet has made the tour of the world, as he does all, in thought.

His shadow on the wall that doth towards Rome incline, he hears the nightingale,
clear warbler, passion-fraught. Imperial Caesar's ash between the stones doth
shine.

Hamlet has made the tour of the world, as he does all, in thought.

Three times has Hamlet made the tour of his chateau. And this then is the world!
And Yorick is the moon? Yorick's skull? In what a coil of madness he is caught!

Hamlet has made the tour of the world, as he does all, in thought.

Beneath the oblong tower that dusks the esplanade, a father's phantom pale
begins his promenade. Why, what a narrow world! "Sire, would you wandering fare?

Thrice I've made the tour of the world, and was sure I'd meet you there."





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