“ Life altogether is but a crumbling ruin when we turn to look behind ”
Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886). copy citation
Author | Jerome K. Jerome |
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Source | Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow |
Topic | life ruin |
Date | 1886 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/849/849-h/849-h.htm |
Context
“but the only thing about it I can call to mind distinctly is that at the most critical moment somebody suddenly opened the door and said, "Emily, you're wanted," in a sepulchral tone that gave one the idea the police had come for her. All the tender words she said to me and all the beautiful things I said to her are utterly forgotten.
Life altogether is but a crumbling ruin when we turn to look behind: a shattered column here, where a massive portal stood; the broken shaft of a window to mark my lady's bower; and a moldering heap of blackened stones where the glowing flames once leaped, and over all the tinted lichen and the ivy clinging green.”
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