Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Only Son Comments

Rating: 2.6

O bitter wind toward the sunset blowing,
What of the dales tonight?
In yonder gray old hall what fires are glowing,
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Sir Henry Newbolt
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David Brancher 08 September 2018

It is fashionable nowadays to mock the type of sentiment but the poet manages, with a few lines, to tell a short story. And like al good short stories it reverates in the imagination to something longer and deeper. To each their own imagination. In its way this is a masterpiece.

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Sir Henry Newbolt

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