Warm summer sun,
shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind,
blow softly here;
Green sod above,
lie light, lie light-
Good-night, dear heart,
good-night, good-night.
These lines were adapted from a poem by Robert Richardson . . . the original can be found in a little book published in 1893 . . . Willow and Wattle . . .
On this date in our extended collateral family history . . . the 19th day of March . . . in the year 1872 . . . Olivea Susan "Susy" Clemens was born in Elmira, New York . . .
Susy was a daughter of Samuel Clemens . . . who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain . . . and this Susy is a 4th cousin once removed to Josephine Wingfield Henry nee Davis (1842-1899) . . . who is a 2nd great-grandma to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .
According to a letter written by Miss Daisy Warner, Susy Clemens enjoyed strawberries and ice cream and ladyfingers at her 15th birthday party on the 19th of March in 1887 . . . following Susy's death at the age of 24, her father had the words at the top of this page engraved on her tombstone . . .
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Warm summer sun,
shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind,
blow softly here;
Green sod above,
lie light, lie light-
Good-night, dear heart,
good-night, good-night.
These lines, often attributed to Mark Twain, were actually adapted from an original poem by Robert Richardson. The original was found in a little book published in 1893, Willow and Wattle.
Mark Twain quotations on death . . .
- Death is the starlit strip
between the companionship of yesterday
and the reunion of tomorrow.
. . . on a monument erected to Mark Twain & Ossip Gabrilowitsch
- It has been reported that I was seriously ill --
it was another man;
dying -- it was another man;
dead -- the other man again . . .
As far as I can see,
nothing remains to be reported,
except that I have become a foreigner.
When you hear it, don't you believe it.
And don't take the trouble to deny it.
Merely just raise the American flag
on our house in Hartford
and let it talk.
. . . Letter to Frank E. Bliss, 11/4/1897
Remembering our cousin . . .
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
30 November 1835 ~ 21 April 1910
