Re: Registered Letter for Ms. Camille Scaysbrook

Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:24:46 -0700 (PDT) 

Camille -
How sweet I roamed.... was also on the Fugs first
album, their nice rendition was an arrangement that
was something between sort of old timey bluegrass and
an "Amazing Grace" sort of hymn.  : )   

> 
> How sweet I roamed from field to field
> And tasted all the summer's pride
> Til I the prince of love beheld
> Who in the sunny beams did glide!
> 
> He shewed me lillies for my hair,
> And blushing roses for my brow
> He led me through his gardens fair,
> Where all his golden pleasures grow.
> 
> With sweet May dews my wings were we,
> And Phoebus fired my vocal rage;
> He caught me in his silken net
> And shut me in his golden cage.
> 
> He loves to sit and hear me sing,
> Then laughing sports and plays with me;
> Then stretches out my golden wing
> And mocks my loss of liberty.
> 
> 		--- William Blake.
> 
> Better than a cold compress full of ice any day.
> 
> Camille
> verona_beach@hotpop.com
> 
> > --- citycabn <citycabn@gateway.net> wrote:
> > > P.S. Another of our clients, rather a *real*
> > > eccentric,  once told us that
> > > if one places a small Blake lyric near the pain,
> it
> > > will soothe it
> > > immensely.  Anyway, might be worth a try.
> > 
> > Ah sunflower
> > weary of time
> > who countest the steps from the sun
> > seeking after
> > the sweet golden clime
> > where the travelers journey is done
> > and the youth
> > pined away with desire
> > and the pale virgin
> > shrouded in snow arise
> > from her grave
> > and aspires
> > where my Sunflower wishes to go
> > 
> > - William Blake
> > 
> > (A *great*, yet gentle poem.  And only in America
> - I
> > did not memorize this for school, I learned it off
> a
> > rock album by the Fugs when I was seventeen (Ed
> > Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Ken Weaver - downtown
> > poets-Hippys-musicians, NYC mid '60's)
> > 
> > =====
> > 
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