> Thanks Frank.
Best wishes, Mike
> Lähettäjä: Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2004/02/07 la PM 02:01:13 GMT+02:00
> Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask]
> Aihe: Re: new sub: Claire Clairmont
>
> Particularly liked 'without happiness she could still be happy'.
>
> interesting to ponder.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Frank
>
>
> 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.
>
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>
> Mike
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