How It Is Said
What's the nineteen-forty love sentiment-if any? And how-O, how-shall we ‘say it in the year two thousand? It’s the same old soul-stirring emotion whether a man’s love be ". . . the red red rose That's newly sprung in June". (Bobby Burns version, 1760) or-with any 1932 American, .. the .cream in my coffee, vsathe salt in my stew." 1435 has it: ' "An hendy hap I habbe hent I wot from heaven _it is me sent. . From all wymmen my love is lent And lit on Alisoun."
But 1840 discovers another manrier: "Amo Amas, I love a lass, As a primrose sweet and tender, Sweet cowslip grace is her nominative case And she’s of the feminine gender!" In 1350 the lover took himself very seriously: "O thou my sorrow and my gladnesse, O thou my hell and my sicknesse, O thou my well, O thou my woe, O thou my frende, O thou my foe..." But, in 1935: "You're the top. You’re a dress by Patou. You're the top. You’re an Epstein statue ... ..». You’re Mahatma Ghandi, You’re Napoleon Brandy, You're pumpkin pie." And. it probably hurt just as much.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 42
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189How It Is Said New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 42
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