I recently read Arcadia, a two-act play by Tom Stoppard which shifts back and forth between the early 1800s to present-day to reveal events that happened at the same location, the same home, in two different centuries. In the opening scene, we meet a tutor and his pupil in 1809; in the next scene, we are introduced to modern-day inhabitants of the ( Read more... )

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Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.
- from Act 5, Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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That is solemn we have ended,
Be it but a play,
Or a glee among the garrets,
Or a holiday,

Or a leaving home; or later,
Parting with a world
We have understood, for better
Still it be unfurled.

- by Emily Dickinson

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Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,
Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.
Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,
And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.

- Pirate Story by Robert Louis Stevenson

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