Subject: Re: Wedding Advice? Quoting Salinger on Love?
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 13:27:53 EDT
I was going to say just that, Scottie...heck, he'd be better off reading
one of Swift's birthday poems to Stella :). At least that way it'd be
funny when the backhanded insults were slippped in.
If you want to insult the bride affectionately, do it right:
STELLA'S BIRTHDAY MARCH 13, 1719
by Jonathan Swift
1 Stella this day is thirty-four,
2 (We shan't dispute a year or more:)
3 However, Stella, be not troubled,
4 Although thy size and years are doubled,
5 Since first I saw thee at sixteen,
6 The brightest virgin on the green;
7 So little is thy form declin'd;
8 Made up so largely in thy mind.
9 Oh, would it please the gods to split
10 Thy beauty, size, and years, and wit;
11 No age could furnish out a pair
12 Of nymphs so graceful, wise, and fair;
13 With half the lustre of your eyes,
14 With half your wit, your years, and size.
15 And then, before it grew too late,
16 How should I beg of gentle Fate,
17 (That either nymph might have her swain,)
18 To split my worship too in twain.
Jim
Scottie Bowman wrote:
> '... the way Seymour clings to Muriel and loves
> her despite all of her shortcomings ...'
>
> That will certainly gladden the heart of the proud bride.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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