Unofficial English Translation

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    I framed to the harp
    Many an English ditty lovely well.
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    Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
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