Whit

                .. hath been

So clear in his great office ..

Songbird's Sparks Will Fly

6 June 2001

24 October 2012

I have regret to bring

to the page news of the

loss of its partner and

a stirring, salient mo-

tive. The waggy tag,

the merry masque, the

feathers never set; his

spirit wouldn't hear of

it. How could ours, now.

One can assimilate a
change, but no one can 
surmise the eclipse of
a sustaining love. 

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

I, vii, 17 - 18

The Arden Shakespeare

op. cit.