Wednesday, April 24, 2024
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen ~ “So Long, Farewell” – from The Sound of Music By now, you’ll know that we’ve come to the end of our time together. I wish I had more […]
“I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow” – Billy Collins I am haunted by humans. It’s through Death’s […]
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; Along the cool sequester’d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. ~ “Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard” – Thomas Gray February, as we all know, is the month of […]
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. ~ “Ring Out, Wild Bells” – Alfred Lord Tennyson It’s mid-December and Goodreads tells me I’ve read a grand total […]
To-day we sought each other’s lives: Death levels all that now; For soon before God’s mercy seat Together we shall bow. Forgive each other while we may; Life’s but a weary game, And, right or wrong, the morning sun Will find us, dead, the same. “The Dying Soldiers” ~ […]