Item 'a book of erotic poetry' is type book, alignment 0, made of paper,
has keywords 'book erotic poetry'.
This item weighs 0 stones and 10 pebbles, and is valued at 135 gp.
This level 5 item has the attributes: wont-fuse
*This item may be repaired 6 times.
MERLIN II
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rhyme of the poet
Modulates the king's affairs;
Balance-loving Nature
Made all things in pairs.
To every foot its antipode;
Each color with its counter glowed;
To every tone beat answering tones,
Higher or graver;
Flavor gladly blends with flavor;
Leaf answers leaf upon the bough;
And match the paired cotyledons.
Hands to hands, and feet to feet,
In one body grooms and brides;
Eldest rite, two married sides
In every mortal meet.
Light's far furnace shines,
Smelting balls and bars,
Forging double stars,
Glittering twins and trines.
The animals are sick with love,
Lovesick with rhyme;
Each with all propitious Time
Into chorus wove.
Like the dancers' ordered band,
Thoughts come also hand in hand;
In equal couples mated,
Or else alternated;
Adding by their mutual gage,
One to other, health and age.
Solitary fancies go
Short-lived wandering to and fro,
Most like to bachelors,
Or an ungiven maid,
Not ancestors,
With no posterity to make the lie afraid,
Or keep truth undecayed.
Perfect-paired as eagle's wings,
Justice is the rhyme of things;
Trade and counting use
The self-same tuneful muse;
And Nemesis,
Who with even matches odd,
Who athwart space redresses
The partial wrong,
Fills the just period,
And finishes the song.
Subtle rhymes, with ruin rife,
Murmur in the house of life,
Sung by the Sisters as they spin;
In perfect time and measure they
Build and unbuild our echoing clay,
As the two twilights of the day
Fold us music-drunken in.
Long description: A small, leatherbound book with a hubbed spine has been dropped here.
This item can be found in Towne of Rune.
Mobiles known to carry this item:
*This item is dropped in Towne of Rune by the mob 'Victoria Wurth'.
This item is required by the following quests:
- The Perfect Gift (30-60) from Lord Vendredi.
- Library Expansion (120-180) from Lord Agrippa.
- Cupid's Mission (121-179) from Lord Agrippa.
- Alyrian Book Club (120-180) from Lord Agrippa.
- Steal This Book! (240-241) from Lord Agrippa.
- Library Dilemma (180-241) from Lord Vendredi.
- Overdue Books! (120-180) from Lord Vashir.
- Philanthropic Deeds (120-180) from Lord Vendredi.
- Forever Alone (60-241) from Lord Vashir.
- Forever Alone (60-241) from Lady Undya.
- Forever Alone (60-241) from Lord Telleri.
- Forever Alone (60-241) from Lord Vendredi.
- Forever Alone (60-241) from Lady Templeton.
- I'm In The Mood For Love (40-119) from Lord Agrippa.
- Last Minute Yule Shopping (181-241) from Lord Agrippa.
- Grammar Police (100-180) from Lord Agrippa.
- Last Minute Yule Shopping (121-180) from Lord Agrippa.