i’ve never heard of him/her – is this sheer ignorance, or worse?
i think JM must have put the feelings and cadences into his/her mind, whoever he/she was!
Ergo, JM should have written it.
Incontestably, therefore, I am happy to know that in his heart, I would have been right – and so deserve a (grey or silver) jelly babe.
Mick Jagger
Funny, but no, not Mick Jagger.
my guess is John Muir, but I don’t have much confidence in that!
You’re right to not be confident. It wasn’t John Muir.
i’ve never heard of him/her – is this sheer ignorance, or worse?
i think JM must have put the feelings and cadences into his/her mind, whoever he/she was!
Ergo, JM should have written it.
Incontestably, therefore, I am happy to know that in his heart, I would have been right – and so deserve a (grey or silver) jelly babe.
How about Khalil Gibran ?
It was Ursula Fanthorpe from her poem Stanton Drew.
my ignorance exposed: must look her up – her pulse has the depth and longing sensed in Elizabeth Arthur’s prose.