[lit-ideas]
- From: Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:47:25 +0000
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.
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'...saw fleeting glimpses...,' maybe, but who's counting?
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