I came on a great house in the middle of the night
Its open lighted doorway and its windows all alight,
And all my friends were there and made me welcome too
But I woke in an old ruin that the winds howled through,
And when I pay attention I must out and walk
Among the dogs and horses that understand my talk.
Oh what of that, oh what of that,
What is there left to say?
Its open lighted doorway and its windows all alight,
And all my friends were there and made me welcome too
But I woke in an old ruin that the winds howled through,
And when I pay attention I must out and walk
Among the dogs and horses that understand my talk.
Oh what of that, oh what of that,
What is there left to say?
– W.B. Yeats, ‘1924’
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| This pic is on THE LEFT! E.G. Whitlam |
Re-posted from a column by Doyen Australian Journalist Bob Ellis (Tabletalk 21 October 2014)
Edward Gough Whitlam was the greatest Prime Minister Australia ever had.
At age 92 he said that he felt proud that Australia 'now (at the time) had a Prime Minister who could speak Mandarin, and, by the way' he added 'America is looking forward to the day when it will have a President who can speak English!'
'I like the correct use of the English language,' he said on another occasion. 'I am not immortal, no, not immortal; I am eternal.'
Did Australia ever deserve someone as great as Pompey?
It had one whether yes or no.
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