Re: A Birthday toast to Leonard Roome -- Speak Up...I Can't Hear You!

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Re: A Birthday toast to Leonard Roome

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Catherine

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Date Posted: 14:16:46 12/15/15 Tue
In reply to: The Mayor 's message, "A Birthday toast to Leonard Roome" on 07:48:25 12/15/15 Tue

Nicely put, dear brother!

One of his favorite books was the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E.Lawrence...I recall him pointing out the dedication to me, a favorite poem.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars
To earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for me
When we came.
Death seemed my servant on the road, till we were near and saw you waiting:
When you smiled, and in sorrowful envy he outran me and took you apart:
Into his quietness.
Love, the way-weary, groped to your body, our brief wage ours for the moment
Before earth�s soft hand explored your shape, and the blind worms grew fat upon
Your substance.
Men prayed me that I set our work, the inviolate house, as a memory of you.
But for fit monument I shattered it, unfinished: and now
The little things creep out to patch themselves hovels in the marred shadow
Of your gift.

Still miss him...

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