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Q: What should be our standard for closing identification-request questions as duplicates?

Rand al'ThorThis question is motivated by the following three questions: (A) Lawyer sacrifices life for his activist friend by taking his place in prison (B) Can't remember book title: a journalist converses with a death row convict (C) What is this famous ending of a poem/speech? Question A is the oldest,...

 
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Q: Why does the speaker in the famous poem want the western wind to blow?

Tom HoskerThere is a famous short poem, of very murky provenance, which exists in a number of versions, one of which reads: Western wind, when wilt thou blow, The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again. The speaker seems to be asking the western wind to blow. A...

 
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Q: What is "The sounding cheer of Time's prophetic horn" in Naidu's "An Anthem of Love"?

MithicalThe middle stanza of Sarojini Naidu's "An Anthem of Love" goes like this: Two ears are we to catch the nearing echo, The sounding cheer of Time's prophetic horn; Two eyes are we to reap the crescent glory, The radiant promise of renascent morn. What is "The sounding cheer of Time's prophetic horn"

 
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@Randal'Thor yep, I did. That was prolly it. Thanks for the explanation!

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