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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Fire Island Belle Returns like the Phoenix from the Ashes

Posted by cosmo at 3:54 PM

1 comment:

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Look back on time with kindly eyes

He doubtless did his best

How softly sinks his trembling sun

In human nature's west.

-Emily Dickinson

What an idle time!

What an idle time! What an insubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospect I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.

--David Copperfield

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Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

-Prufrock

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That Time allows,

In all his tuneful turnings

So few, and such morning songs

Before the children, green and golden

Follow him out of grace.

--Dylan Thomas

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When the tale of their journeyings was told, there were other tales, and yet more tales, tales of long ago, and tales of new things, and tales of no time at all, till Bilbo's head fell forward on his chest, and he snored comfortably in a corner.

--The Hobbit

He had respect for the sea...
On Bofin Island, he loafed on land,
Dozed the sterile winter dreaming of boats
And in the summer wanted neither food nor sleep
While he gave his strength seriously to the sea.--

Richard Murphy, "The Cleggan Disaster" Off the west coast of Ireland, 1927

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