High culture comes to .org, Part VI: Alfred Lord Tennyson on the power of Chad

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Hello, and welcome to Part VI of my wildly popular series: High Culture Comes to .org. Today, The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It's a poem about a lady who is cursed to live in a tower and never look out at the real world except indirectly through a mirror, that is until one day Chad Sir Lancelot's image appears in her mirror...

The Lady of Shalott (1842)

Part I On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro' the field the road runs by To many-tower'd Camelot; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Only reapers,…

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