When hot for certainties in this our life!—
In tragic hints here see what evermore
Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force,
Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse,
To throw that faint thin line upon the shore!"—English poet-novelist George Meredith (1828-1909), Modern Love (1862)
The image accompanying
this post shows Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland in the 1942 film adaptation
of Ellen Glasgow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, In This Our Life—a
title taken, as seen in the passage above, from this George Meredith poem.
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