Enclosure – “Assumption Day”: draft of poem by RG
Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- In Collection:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1275
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1938-08-15_01_enc.html
- July 19, 2002
- Enclosure – “ Assumption Day ”: draft of poem by RG Assumption Day What was wrong with the day, doubtless, Was less the unseasonable gusty weather, Than the bells ringing on a Monday morning For a church-feast that interested nobody could welcome – Not even the bell-ringers. The pond had shrunk: its yellow lilies Poked rubbery necks out of the water. I paused and sat down crossly on a tussock, My back turned on the idle water-beetles That would not skim, but floated. A wasp, a humble-bee, a blue-fly Uncoöperatively at work together Were sucking honey from the crowded blossom Of a pale flower whose name someone once told me – Someone to be mistrusted. But, not far off, our little cow-herd Made mud-cakes, with one eye on the cattle, And marked each separate cake with his initials. I was half-tempted by the child's example To rescue my spoilt morning.
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