The distance by Garrett Lathe

J. David Moore

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JWebsite

Eleanor Farjeon (poet)

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Wiki page

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THE DISTANCE
Over the sounding sea,
Off the wandering sea
I smelt the smell of the distance
And longed for another existence.
Smell of pineapple, maize, and myrrh,
Parrot-feather and monkey-fur,
Brown spice,
Blue ice,
Fields of tobacco and tea and rice,
And soundless snows,
And snowy cotton,
Otto of rose
Incense in an ivory palace,
Jungle rivers rich and rotten,
Slumbering valleys,
Smouldering mountains,
Rank morasses
And frozen fountains,
Black molasses and purple wine,
Coral and pearl and tar and brine,
The smell of panther and polar-bear
And leopard-lair
And mermaid-hair
Came from the four-cornered distance,
And I longed for another existence.
~ Eleanor Farjeon

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Maize (corn)

Myrrh

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an oil from this type of tree still used for homeopathic and religious reasons

Monkey Fur

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No pictures are necessary, but monkey fur was a commodity that was traded in days of exploration and conquest

Brown Spice

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Blue Ice

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Frozen sea water

Otto of Rose

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Oil from a rose

Smoldering Mountain

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Either volcano or a cloud covered mountain

Rank Morasses

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(smelly swamp)

Black Molasses

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A common sweetener in the 19th Century

Frozen Fountain

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Mermaid-hair

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An algae that grows on rocks or objects underwater and mimics a woman's hair in the current

Four-cornered distance

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Referring to the edges of early maps which often had artistic renderings of angelic, mythical, or other-worldly art.