Thanks!
Took me a while to get to that.
L
On 1 October 2014 21:56, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Cheers to dismal capacity, L.
>
> B
>
> > On 1 Oct 2014, at 11:15 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I call it my cave, though it is not one;
> >
> > but piles of rock among intermixed boulders,
> >
> > oddly placed masses causing space to be
> >
> > held by mad windows big as doors; passages
> >
> > in which a man, even one of my height,
> >
> > must often bend. It's never warm; not safe.
> >
> > And I live in this dismal capacity,
> >
> > each pulse failing, as aging animals
> >
> > withdraw themselves to release meagre spirits
> >
> > into selfless generalising voids;
> >
> > or I'm a creature which found itself
> >
> > its true domain, hidden much of the time
> >
> > to emerge at half-light for the urgent needs:
> >
> > feeding, and emptying its body of foul wastes.
> >
> > They think I'm dead; but all they'd see's a ghost;
> >
> > or something unembodied, apparently shaped
> >
> > as a caricature gesticulating
> >
> >
> >
> > [Elidius is one of the names of one who may have lived at some time after
> > the Roman period on Scilly, or, as it then seems to have been called,
> > Ennor. There is no evidence of him apart from the earlier name of St
> > Helen's island, where it is said he may have been buried, Insula Sancti
> > Elidii. His feast day is 8th August. Until now he has had no
> hagiographer. ]
> >
>
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