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HUNTING HORNS by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

Poem Explanation

First Line: OUR STORY IS NOBLE AND TRAGIC
Last Line: WHOSE SOUND DIES ON THE BREEZE.
Subject(s): MEMORY;
Our story is noble and tragic
As a tyrant's mask;
No dangerous drama or magic;
No detail unpoetic
Makes our love-dream pathetic.

And Thomas De Quincey drinking
His opiate hippocras
Of his poor Ann wandered thinking
Let us pass, since all things pass
I shall return at my ease.

Memories are hunting horns
Whose sound dies on the breeze.



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