Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Who Now Will Read Paradise Lost With Us?
In Memory of Robert Fluornoy Conn Attorney, scholar, eccentric, friend
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing heavenly muse…
Paradise Lost I.4-6
A Methodist, a Catholic, and an Anglican Did not walk into a bar – they brought their own Scotch
“I don’t do funerals anymore” He said to me a few weeks ago Creaky and old in the late winter cold - He can’t get out of this one today
We read Milton together when we were young A year of Thursday nights with whisky and pipes In Tod’s old office away from some women Who disapproved of tobacco, books, and thought
Now far along Bilbo’s road they both have gone And we are left in company with good stout friends