IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12258, 23 February 1937, Page 2

IMPORTANT ANNIVE RSARY

li(i YEARS AGO TO-DAY THE FLOAVEUS GUOW OVER 1,1 He gave ns things of beau, ! that are a joy for ever, Keats was Ins name, and a i(ti w time only he had to stay, f’ rare genius with a sure placed English literatus, his passia- ; J was sad indeed. Here is Sidiuj 1 Colvin's line account of the cai in IS2I. |’| “X feel the flowers growls- if® over me, he said, and it setnu * to have been gently and withou, { bitterness that he gave (t« words for his epitaph; Here lie | J j one whose name was writ n 6 ' water. - Ever since the first attack ai ' Wentworth Place he had keif; ; used to speak of himself as Kv- ,’| ’ ing a posthumous life, and k:, | his habitual question to the dot- if tor as he came in was, "Doctor, [1 ' • when will this posthumous lid of mine come to an end?" h As he turned to ask it neither physician nor friend could her 1 the pathetic expro.sion of h's |a eyes, at all times of extraorfc |® ary power, and now burning I® with sad and piercing uuerrthl; ' brightness in his wasted cheeks. ' It came peacefully at last.' "On |j|| the 23rd of the month;” write |3 Severn, “about four, the a> |||| proaches of death came on. ‘Severn —I lift me up—l ani ||| dying—l shall die easily; don’t ||j| be frightened—lie firm, and thank God it lias come.’ " Jig 1