Unfortunately, I'm starting to have second thoughts about the custom engraving I order for the back. Since the engraving was included in the cost of the iPad, I decided to put something on there. Unfortunately, instead of going with something sensible like "If found, please call xxx.xxx.xxxx, reward offered", I went with a line from a poem by virtually unknown Romantic era poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes:
"Tis cloven and cracked
and battered and hacked"
My thinking at the time was that it will be after I use it for a few months.
Perhaps someone out there can start a random iPad engraving blog and use mine as an example. I'll post a photo of it one it arrives.
Here is the whole text of the poem from which the quote above originates:
Old Adam, the carrion crow,The old crow of Cairo;
He sat in the shower, and let it flow
Under his tail and over his crest;
And through every feather
Leak'd the wet weather;
And the bough swung under his nest;
For his beak it was heavy with marrow.
Is that the wind dying? O no;
It's only two devils, that blow,
Through a murderer's bones, to and fro,
In the ghosts' moonshine.
Ho! Eve, my grey carrion wife,
When we have supped on king's marrow,
Where shall we drink and make merry our life?
Our nest it is queen Cleopatra's skull,
'Tis cloven and crack'd,
And batter'd and hack'd,
But with tears of blue eyes it is full:
Let us drink then, my raven of Cairo!
Is that the wind dying? O no;
It's only two devils, that blow
Through a murderer's bones, to and fro,
In the ghosts' moonshine.
His suicide note read "I should have been a poet".
Lesson: Live your dreams, don't put them off.
If you know of a smart little girl who is going through an Edgar Allen Poe phase, introduce her to Beddoes.
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