The story of Ida: epitaph on an Etrurian tomb

· 1917

A week ago yesterday, I looked for the last time on her who has been, for so long, at once a care and a help to me. I feel that her life has left a great peacefulness in mine, that will be a long time before it quite fades away, like the light which remains so long after sunset on a summer evening; and while I am yet, as it were, within her influence, I have wished to write down a little of what I remember of her, that so beautiful a life and death may not be quite forgotten.…

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