Juliet MarillierI wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled. This quote is an excerpt of the closing lines of the poem "Nemo" by George Mackay Brown. The poem was first published in 1971 and is written in Scottish Gaelic.
It is an elegy written by the poet on the death of his wife, Margaret Napier. The poem begins with the speaker reflecting on how his life has changed since his loss of his beloved wife, Margaret Napier. Next he considers the beauty of her body and wonders at the beauty she carried within her before moving on to ponder if she was beautiful or not or whether she was worthy of love after all, before moving on again to consider the brevity of life before finally ending on a note of hope for those left behind, saying "And yet I wonder how it takes you/ That moment when everything turns to shadows."
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