Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Geoffrey Chaucer


. . .

"By God," he thought, "I'm living in fantasy!

If I had control of my senses, I'd surely know

She's dead and drowned, lying on the floor of the sea."

And then he changed his tack, "Yet, although

That's reason itself, what if Christ might be

The force that brings me to her, just as he

Might well have ordered her journey out of Syria?"

. . .



Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales"
Translated by Burton Raffel
The Random House Books - 2009




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