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Sexagenarius Loquitur by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (poetry reading) |
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Date :08 August 2010 |
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His most famous creation was Sherlock Holmes. He wrote poetry too: this was from a 1911 collection called Songs of the Road, so he couldn\'t have been more than 51 when he wrote it. It wasn\'t addressed to a specific lady because neither of his wives meet the specification. Any mortal woman would have been offended It was obviously intended to be a joke. He married Louisa Hawkins when he was 26. She died of tuberculosis in 1906 when he was 46. His second wife was Jean Elizabeth Leckie, born in 1874. The portraits have nothing to do with the poem. \"Yekaterina Scherbatova\" was by Joseph-Désiré Court, 1840\"Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Lavoisier\" was by Jacques-Louis David, 1788FROM our youth to our age We have passed each stage In old immemorial order, From primitive days Through flowery ways With love like a hedge as their border. Ah, youth was a kingdom of joy, And we were the king and the queen, When I was a year Short of thirty, my dear, And you were just nearing nineteen. But dark follows light And day follows night As the old planet circles the sun; And nature still traces Her score on our faces And tallies the years as they run. Have they chilled the old warmth in your heart? I swear that they have not in mine, Though I am a year Short of sixty, my dear, And you are—well, say thirty-nine. [More] [Less] |
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