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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 13212688, member: 5833"]It wouldn't really be a rebus, but once I stopped seeing Alice and the Pool of Tears, I considered more what else could be depicted that was a famous poem. Went looking for something with a title along the lines of 'by the river' & this was top of AI's results. The table where the letters were written, the epistles being washed away, the candle that has connections with both inspiration & nighttime labors. It's Goethe, it's short. I can imagine kids having to learn it once upon a time. Largely conjecture, but it hangs together fairly well.</p><p><br /></p><p>In some of the others wish I knew what the drawing was supposed to be. Are those sheep on a hill? Ewes?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 13212688, member: 5833"]It wouldn't really be a rebus, but once I stopped seeing Alice and the Pool of Tears, I considered more what else could be depicted that was a famous poem. Went looking for something with a title along the lines of 'by the river' & this was top of AI's results. The table where the letters were written, the epistles being washed away, the candle that has connections with both inspiration & nighttime labors. It's Goethe, it's short. I can imagine kids having to learn it once upon a time. Largely conjecture, but it hangs together fairly well. In some of the others wish I knew what the drawing was supposed to be. Are those sheep on a hill? Ewes?[/QUOTE]
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