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Elizabeth von Arnim: The Solitary Summer – Reading Progress Update: 9 of 190 Pages – Lioness at Large

Elizabeth von Arnim: The Solitary Summer – Reading Progress Update: 9 of 190 Pages

The Solitary Summer - Elizabeth von Arnim

“A great deal that is poetical has been written by English people about May Day, and the impression left on the foreign mind is an impression of posies, and garlands, and village greens, and youths and maidens much be-ribboned, and lambs, and general friskiness.  I was in England once on a May Day, and we sat over the fire shivering and listening blankly to the north-east wind tearing down the street and the rattling of the hail against the windows, and the friends with whom I was staying said it was very often so, and that they had never seen any lambs and ribbons.  We Germans attach no poetical significance to it at all, and yet we well might, for it is almost invariably beautiful; and as for garlands, I wonder how many villages full of young people could have been provided with them out of my  garden, and nothing be missed?”

Oh, Elizabeth … smh — on so many levels.

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