“Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific — and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise —
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.” —John Keats, ‘On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer’, 1817.
margaret sinker (1935-2005)
10:34am, 28 April, 2005: My mum died, suddenly but peacefully, at ten to ten on 16 April, in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. She was 69, and had been ill for a long time. She is buried under the yew tree in the churchyard she loved, next to her mother and father.
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