Literature Clues: 4 Swords

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 13 May 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

allibee	13 May 2003
This is Wordsworth again. I hope you'll find this is a 'speed' round, as the imagery seems conclusively to point to only one card. So, lets see who hits the buzzer first with the right answer..... LANCE, shield, and sword relinquished, at his side A bead-roll, in his hand a clasped book, Or staff more harmless than a shepherd's crook, The war-worn Chieftain quits the world--to hide His thin autumnal locks where Monks abide In cloistered privacy. But not to dwell In soft repose he comes: within his cell, Round the decaying trunk of human pride, At morn, and eve, and midnight's silent hour, Do penitential cogitations cling; Like ivy, round some ancient elm, they twine In grisly folds and strictures serpentine; Yet, while they strangle, a fair growth they bring, For recompence--their own perennial bower. A.

Two of Wands	13 May 2003
Hmmm... well it reminds me of the Old Man in the Ten of Pentacles, but maybe that's because he's been on my mind a lot lately!

allibee	13 May 2003
nope, sorry

Two of Wands	13 May 2003
The Hermit

firemaiden	13 May 2003
Yes, it sure sounds like the Hermit to me too, it sounds also like Wotan, in his guise as the Wanderer. So if there be a wanderer in the deck, other than the Hermit, I would name the Fool, at his crossroads, or.... Death. (again. I keep thinking of death!)

allibee	14 May 2003
It's not a Major :O) I've tried to keep this universally accessible, so think RWS A.

firemaiden	14 May 2003
Four of Swords

Dark Eyes	14 May 2003
knight of wands?

allibee	14 May 2003
Yea .... Firemaiden does it again :O) The poem is called 'Seclusion', from Wordsworths Ecclesiastical Sonnets. I read it and conjured the image so from the off it 'screamed' 4 Swords at me. (I rather think Macavites 'late Knight' thread elsewhere was a bit of a give away tho' LOL.) Over to you again Firemaiden ..... A.

firemaiden	14 May 2003
okay! wow! give me a little while; these clues are harder, now I have to read some books!

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