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R,CHARD MONCKTON MILNES was born in the year - OUDL Home

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132 V. Sackville-Westof <strong>the</strong>ir day. And <strong>the</strong> fashion of <strong>the</strong>ir day <strong>was</strong> really <strong>in</strong>advance of <strong>the</strong>m. Far from be<strong>in</strong>g prophets, <strong>the</strong>y werealmost anachronisms. Literature <strong>was</strong> permitted <strong>the</strong>m asa respectable pursuit, but <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> glue and treacle ofliterary convention <strong>the</strong>y had rema<strong>in</strong>ed embedded. Still,by <strong>the</strong>ir mere energy <strong>the</strong>y were dragg<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>ir footstepsupward; for this we owe <strong>the</strong>m our gratitude; and s<strong>in</strong>cesymbolism may be twisted to serve almost any end wemay conclude with <strong>the</strong>se verses of <strong>the</strong> 'seventies, writtenby Alice Meynell:O mo<strong>the</strong>r, for <strong>the</strong> weight of <strong>year</strong>s that break <strong>the</strong>e!O daughter, for slow time must yet awake <strong>the</strong>e,And from <strong>the</strong> changes of my heart must make <strong>the</strong>e.Know that <strong>the</strong> mournful pla<strong>in</strong> where thou must wanderIs but a grey and silent world, but ponderThe misty mounta<strong>in</strong>s of <strong>the</strong> morn<strong>in</strong>g yonder.The one who now thy faded features guesses,With filial f<strong>in</strong>gers thy grey hair caresses,With morn<strong>in</strong>g tears thy mournful twilight blesses.

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