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Open book Illegible or unsigned, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1942, 1978

Title Illegible or unsigned, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1942, 1978

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n.d., 1942, 1978

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription Memories do not rest
Strange how so many things
Can bring you back to me.
A wild trail, a rose, a tree
Stirs a [sic] old memory.
In the white despair of Winter.
Or in the heart of June -
I remember you, I may find you
even in a popular tune.
There may be summer birds
or perhaps when they have fled.
There may be rambling roses,
Or when they all are dead.
if I were wise I would forget,
if I were calm and wise -
But I am ever disturbed by recalling
Your dark and flashing eyes.

--Estella Davis taylor.

I like this except I think the last two lines spoil it some way. I would have ended it by "your sweet and gentle eyes" For I think of Mama when I read it she loved the woods, the trips through the fields to Grandmas, wild roses, etc.
if old pip had never moved on the scene!

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 37 Folder 1755

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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File Created 12/15/2021

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00037_fl_01755_000057.tif

Unique Identifier NL1MV86

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