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9.09.2002
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In lieu of September 11th coverage, today I bring you something fun and frivolous- The Wild and Wacky World of the Victorians!
So, I'm taking this fantastic Victorian Poetry class here at sunny old Brooklyn College. Frequent watchers of Japhy know I have a love of all things Victorian: Dignity, consumption and the like. A classmate has already observed, 'You're kind of a Victorian geek, aren't you?' I tragically coughed up a little blood in reply.
In any event, I love this class. Love love love. Expect an ode to it soon.
I also think I may have a favorite poet already.
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, live from the mainstage at Japhyjunket, heeeeeeeeere's Mister Thomas Hardy!
(insert loud applause and muppetish screaming)
Neutral Tones
We stood by a pond that winter day
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod
-- They had fallen from an ash, and were grey.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles of years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro
On which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird-a-wing...
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree
And a pond edged with greyish leaves.
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The moral of this blog is that Jill is alive and well in Japan.
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