The Visioner's Tale

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The reconstruction of the 14th century in the work "The Visioner's Tale", one of the little-known writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. As "The Visioner's Tale" exists only as a fragment, having being recovered from a palimpsest, it is generally omitted from editions of the Canterbury Tales. The restored verses can be sometimes be found in academic commentaries on "The Manciple's Tale".

(contemporary prose reconstruction by Danish scholar of fragmented text)

My lady's touch upon the lute is light,
yet she weaves the streams of melody,
with such profound synchicity,
that the river of time spills into dream,
into that ocean of unspoken promise,
where lives primordial the memory of future things,
here vision and voice and sound,
and meaning emerge at last as one.