[lit-ideas] Re: Hanging with Letitia
- From: david ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:56:33 -0700
On Oct 19, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
No penance salves such wounds.
Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport,
And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,--
Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen,
Slumbering the festal hours away
Anna Letitia Barbauld, "Ode to Remorse."
I should think that any amount of crouching, while slumbering in the
middle of a bower of roses--far less crouching for hours, while
slumbering etc.--would be sufficient penance for anything.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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