Baucis & Philemon - 

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Sue Edwards & Thomas Averill Huckins

Desert Haven Nursing Home, Phoenix, Arizona

February 1981

(Photograph by Mathilde Demisay Huckins)
"A while they whisper; then, to Jove addressed,
Philemon thus prefers their joint request:
'We crave to serve before your sacred shrine,
And offer at your altars rites divine;
And since not any action of our life
Has been polluted with domestic strife,
We beg one hour of death; that neither she
With widow's tears may live to bury me,
Nor weeping I, with withered arms, may bear
My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.'

 

 

 

        


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