But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
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And when I fell from there,Then knew I also what this life would do
In being twin,-in being man and woman!
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Yet only for that we have been so long
Sundered desire: thence is our life all praise.
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Hazardous are the stars, yet is our birth
And our journeying time theirs;
As words of air, life makes of starry earth
Sweet soul-delighted faces.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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