Gilded Mammoth

4 responses to “Gilded Mammoth”

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   jurvetson

   Jan 23, 2018 at 11:31 pm

   the perfect compliment to to my gilded fiancée

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   nhr

   Jan 25, 2018 at 5:19 pm

   > the perfect compliment to to my gilded fiancée

   I dunno if that association with a pachydermatous bone stack would really be perceived as a compliment by a lady…
   ( Is your message to her that "Bony is only skin deep" ? 😉

   Shall I compare thee to that skeleton?
   Thou art more lively and more delicate:

   Passing time sheds the tender flesh and hair,
   And mammoth’s lease had all too short a date:

   Sometime in kitsch this sculptor shines
   And often is the gold complexion plated;

   And every fur from woolly sometime declines,
   By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;

   But thy eternal glitter shall not fade
   Nor lose possession of that frame thou hast;

   Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
   When as gilded bones to time thou grow’st;

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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   jurvetson

   Jan 26, 2018 at 12:44 am

   The complement is so passive…. this is pure poetry, unchained from the gilded cage

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   jurvetson

   Feb 27, 2018 at 7:17 pm

   and we just saw with fur in BC

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