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In Canto I. I followed the old rule / We learned from Horace when we went to school, / And took a headlong plunge "in medias res", / As Maro did, and blind Meonides; / And now, still following the ancient mode, / I come to the time-honored "episode," / Retrace my way some twenty years or more, / And tell you what I should have told before.
It seems an awkward method, but it's art; -- / Besides, it brings us back to Elfinhart.