New ambition
Aug. 2nd, 2006 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeI want to be Baroness Linklater of Butterstone.
Unfortunately, it's my understanding that there already is one of those, a real one, so I shall have to content myself with my Halloween identity, Cecil Featherstone, Professor of Morbid Poetry, which I declaim at length to thedismay delight of my coworkers.
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain
My crop of corn is but a field of tares
And all my good is but vain hope of gain
My youth is spent and yet I am still young
And now I live, and now my life is done.
— Chidiock Tichbourne, written on the eve of his execution for conspiring to assassinate Elizabeth I
Unfortunately, it's my understanding that there already is one of those, a real one, so I shall have to content myself with my Halloween identity, Cecil Featherstone, Professor of Morbid Poetry, which I declaim at length to the
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain
My crop of corn is but a field of tares
And all my good is but vain hope of gain
My youth is spent and yet I am still young
And now I live, and now my life is done.
— Chidiock Tichbourne, written on the eve of his execution for conspiring to assassinate Elizabeth I