Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Auden's verse with admiration.
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@home.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:52:10 -0700
References: <4D2DC4211C50D311A64C0008C75D6BC507EDE3AD@m07.ibx.com> <3BA0F897.F2F59DF1@rabiner.cncoffice.com>

> > 
> > --- tm <leicar8@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > I sit in one of the dives
> > > On Fifty-second Street
> > > Uncertain and afraid
> > > As the clever hopes expire
> > > Of a low dishonest decade;
> > > Waves of anger and fear
> > > Circulate over the bright
> > > And darkened lands of the earth,
> > > Obsessing our private lives;
> > > The unmentionable odour of death
> > > Offends the September night
> > >
> > >
> > > - W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939.
> > >
> I underestimated the power and beauty of poetry.****
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> 
> Portland, Oregon
> USA
 http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/


**** like a simple B&W image taken with  a Noctilux.....           


Steve

In reply to: Message from "Wang, Albert" <Albert.Wang@ibx.com> ([Leica] Auden's verse with admiration.)
Message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Auden's verse with admiration.)