"SOMETHING TO LOVE, OH, SOMETHING TO LOVE!"

"SOMETHING TO LOVE, OH, SOMETHING TO LOVE!" Gravity had( oh hell ) gone AWOL! Sky and earth switched places in an instant his mind unable(oooOOOPS!) to keep up with the changing reality. Everything had gone w h i t e as if the world had been erased. Then, a blackout: as if one had one's own private night. He woke to find his arm had escaped his body. Bones( his own ) sticking out of his shirt as if his skeleton had gone on a day trip to this the outside world lord god almighty. Then, a universe of pain but all he could manage was: "Ow...that hurt!" "Hi!" said the sky back in its proper place. Pain screamed through him. There appeared to be an eternity of it. "I'm off!" he offered as a retort slipping out the back door of the world leaving his body to deal with the pain. Adrift in a sea of agony he held on to a line of poetry "Something to love, oh, something to love!"

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Mar 24, 2017

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"Some tame gazelle or some gentle dove,
Something to love, oh, something to love."

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Bayly is best remembered for his lovely LONG LONG AGO song which at the beginning of the 40's uptempo'd and with a change of lyrics morphed into DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE WITH NOBODY ELSE BUT ME!
He is also remembered for his children's poem WHERE DO THE FAIRES GO WHEN IT SNOWS?

SOME TAME GAZELLE is of course the title of Barbara Pym's first novel, she the beloved novelist of Philip Larkin. Pym was the Jane Austen of the '50's painting with a delicate palette the mores of the English of her times. A real delight

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