> Hello Grasshopper,
Many thanks for your comments on this one. I´ll give your suggestions careful consideration.
Best wishes, Mike
> Lähettäjä: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2004/02/02 ma PM 10:44:41 GMT+02:00
> Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask]
> Aihe: Re: new sub: Claire Clairmont
>
> Dear Mike,
> Goodness me, this seems such a flattened account of an eventful life,
> with no feeling of period coming across to me.
> It does seem a bit of a missed opportunity to me.
> Kind regards,
> grasshopper
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Horwood" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:54 AM
> Subject: [THE-WORKS] new sub: Claire Clairmont
>
>
> Claire Clairmont And Allegra
>
> It is not true to say that her soul was withered
> within her by the death of her five-year-old child,
> though she said herself she had never again smiled
> absolutely; without happiness she could still be happy.
>
> Far from familiar scenes she stepped on strange stairs
> to her room´s cold and lonely austerity.
> But she often remarked, those whom posterity
> had honoured with greatness were numbered among her friends,
>
> though her passage through life had been solitary.
> And when she died, in a country remote from her
> daughter´s grave, the shawl, her lover´s last gift to her
> sixty years earlier, was laid in the coffin.
>
> When violet evening clouds were edged with orange,
> reflected in still water, she watched the day´s slow wane.
> And though this scene could not remove her pain,
> she never tried to believe that her loss negated its beauty.
>
>
>
>
> Mike
>
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