5-What I should have done (bookshop)

What I should have done (bookshop)
We had no chance no time, was I faint of heart? Too romantic did not fight no more letters, did not plan campaign, she loved the letter writer

the directness of Sextus Propertius
the peasant vitality/visuality of Jacob Grimmer

computer

ballad

Would she weep

Would she cry
For the erect stance
Of youth not yet
Burdened with regret?

Iphis (Euripides)

Why aren't poor mortals ever allowed this,
to run life's course again, its youth and age?
As in our home, if something goes awry
we have a second chance, can rectify it.
But not so in our lives. Now just suppose
we could relive it all – twice young, twice old --
if we made some hideous blunder, we could fix it.

          The Suppliant Women by Euripides