[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas]
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:59:52 +0900
ditto ditto
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> On 2015/02/27, at 0:47, Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ditto
>
> From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Robert Paul
> Sent: 26 February 2015 02:53
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Prince Otsu before his execution
>
> The whole poem is excellent, Lawrence, but this last stanza is superb
>
> ―Robert.
>
> Prince Otsu experienced fleeting
> Glimpses of what he would miss.
> Alas, it wouldn’t have been as he
> Imagined even if his executioners
> Never Arrived and even if he lived to eighty.
> He would merely sit by a fire and fail to recall
> Much of whatever it turned out to have been.
>
> ―――――――――――――――――――――――
>
> '...saw fleeting glimpses...,' maybe, but who's counting?
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