Tim,
You cannot die here. Resurgam is required of your kind. Though the saints among us (just like us) are dust, they must come marching in-- again, and again, and again. Stephen |
We disagreed on almost everything except poetry (where we disagreed only some of the time) but Tim - and Alan, before his death - were wonderful friends, and I will miss Tim's joy and talent and support greatly.
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In so far as we have to look forward
To death as a fact, no doubt we are right: But if Sins can be forgiven, if bodies rise from the dead, These modifications of matter into Innocent athletes and gesticulating fountains, Made solely for pleasure, make a further point: The blessed will not care what angle they are regarded from, Having nothing to hide. Dear, I know nothing of Either, but when I try to imagine a faultless love Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape. WH Auden |
Bless you on your way, Tim. I like to think you're in the Happy Hunting Ground with Feeny now.
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Requiem aeternam, our Lariat.
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I am very sorry to hear this news. My condolences to family and friends. His legacy will live on.
John |
If anyone has a favorite poem by Tim, perhaps they might post it here or on another thread. Here is one that I put on my Facebook page.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Each will and codicil made heretofore by me I cancel. Let this be at law my binding will. Assets of every kind with which I die possessed pass to my trust and vest as I long since designed. Bankers whose funds I drew in hardship I enjoin: leave me the single coin my Ferryman is due. My brother James, I name executor, trustee. From every obligee I hold him free from blame. My mother I bid goodbye. I leave her in good hands. My younger brother stands straighter by far than I. Alan, across the river the poets abide their glade where I’ll embrace the shade of my foremost forgiver. Made and declared by free intent my written word and signed by me this 3rd of March, 2003. |
Hail and farewell, Tim! I will always be grateful for the early encouragement you gave me about my Catullus translations. You were a vibrant presence on the Sphere for a long time and will be missed.
Susan |
I think he had the hardest of deaths, but he bore it bravely.
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I didn't know Tim. But the last few weeks, reading these threads, have really moved me. The Sphere seems like a family of a kind, and like all families it squabbles and can be dysfunctional, but it's a family nonetheless. It seems that today it lost one of its fathers.
Bless you Tim. Rest now. |
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