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AnSionnachRua  ·  2124 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The lost art of memorization

A much easier Housman poem to memorise:

    When the bells justle in the tower

    The hollow night amid,

    Then on my tongue the taste is sour

    Of all I ever did.

I know an older gentlemen who can recite over forty Irish poems owing to being forced to memorise them back in school. The result is sweet, but the process sounds like torture.