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RE: i once had a likeable personalit... (in reply to britguy)
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When you get to my age, you begin to realize that for most of us, Life is really a series of compromises. . .
I am probably older than you and compromises is too weak a description of what amounts to trench warfare Not apropos of anything here but my fav poetic line from Browning: That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
RE: i once had a likeable personalit... (in reply to britguy)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
And death shall have no dominion. Dead man naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion. No more may gulls cry at their ears Or waves break loud on the seashores; Where blew a flower may a flower no more Lift its head to the blows of the rain; Though they be mad and dead as nails, Heads of the characters hammer through daisies; Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.
RE: i once had a likeable personalit... (in reply to britguy)
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December 16, 1934
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And I think perhaps Wordsworth's lines may be more appropriate for the original post?
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July 18, 1932
Agreed on Wordsworth but as i said mine was not apropos of anything here. I just hated to pass up an opportunity to quote Browning.however tenuous the justification.