Monday, September 25, 2017
I am one of Nancy's five remaining cousins.
I thought long and hard about what I wanted to express knowing she had so little time left.
Nancy loved reading and I'm not sure she liked poetry but my I found something I think she would have liked.
I AM NOT RESIGNED TO THE SHUTTING AWAY OF LOVING HEARTS IN THE HARD GROUND. SO IT IS, AND SO IT WILL BE, FOR SO IT HAS BEEN, TIME OUT OF MIND: INTO THE DARKNESS THEY GO, THE WISE AND THE LOVELY. CROWNED WITH LILIES AND WITH LAUREL THEY GO; BUT I AM NOT RESIGNED.
LOVERS AND THINKERS, INTO THE EARTH WITH YOU. BE ONE WITH THE DULL, THE INDISCRIMINATE DUST. A FRAGMENT OF WHAT YOU FELT, OF WHAT YOU KNEW, A FORMULA, A PHRASE REMAINS, - BUT THE BEST IS LOST.
THE ANSWERS QUICK AND KEEN, THE HONEST LOOK, THE LAUGHER, THE LOVE, - THEY ARE GONE. THEY ARE GONE TOO FEED THE ROSES. ELEGANT AND CURLED IS THE BLOSSOM. FRAGRANT IS THE BLOSSOM. I KNOW, BUT I DO NOT APPROVE. MORE PRECIOUS WAS THE LIGHT IN YOUR EYES THAN ALL THE ROSES IN THE WORLD.
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN INTO THE DARKNESS OF THE GRAVE
GENTLY THEY GO, THE BEAUTIFUL, THE TENDER, THE KIND;
QUIETLY THEY GO, THE INTELLIGENT THE WITTY, THE BRAVE.
I KNOW. BUT I DO NOT APPROVE. AND I AM NOT RESIGNED.
Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millary
I loved you Nancy and will always miss our get togethers.
