Unkissed,
unrejoicing,
unconfessed,
unembraced.
It's a turn of phrase that brings with it
a sense of not sharing.
Of being out of it, whether because of diffidence or shyness.
But a holding back.
Not being in the swim .
Can you see that?
Boy:
Yes, sir.
I felt that a bit.
2.
Take it, feel it, and pass it on.
Not for me. Not for you.
But for someone, somewhere.
One day.
3. Drummer Hodge - []Drummer Hodge
by Thomas Hardy
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined – just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around;
And foreign constellations west
Each night above his mound.
Young Hodge the Drummer never knew –
Fresh from his Wessex home –
The meaning of the broad Karoo,
The Bush, the dusty loam,
And why uprose to nightly view
Strange stars amid the gloam.
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge forever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellation reign
His stars eternally.
Drummer Hodge was thrown Buried in a pit,
as found, without a coffin:
his burial is a hill in South Africa,
tearing the surrounding plain a little;
Every night above this tomb,
exotic constellations spread to the west.
Having just arrived here from his home in Wessex,
the young drummer Hodge couldn't understand what was the point of the
bushes, the fertile soil and the dust, the
vast arid plateau?
The dark night is vast, and
the twinkling constellations are strange.
It is in this corner of the nameless plain that
Hodge will sleep forever and never leave;
he will grow into a big tree in the south,
with the simple mind and heart of the north, and
let the stars twinkle with strange eyes,
to rule his destiny forever.
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