“He wrapped himself in quotations-
as a beggar would enfold himself
in the purple of Emperors.”
~Rudyard Kipling
The Color Purple
lilacs
Lilacs Outside My Window
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
by Walt Whitman
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.”
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