December 12: “a tinkling of the camel-bell”

Posted on December 12, 2008 by sheila

Excerpted from Christopher Morley’s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure:

DECEMBER 12, SAT. 1931

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause
He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell,
A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.

— SIR RICHARD BURTON, The Kasidah

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2 Responses to December 12: “a tinkling of the camel-bell”

  1. Kristen says:
    December 12, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Ooh … I love this. Hard to do some times.

  2. Oisin says:
    December 17, 2008 at 7:59 am

    Love this website…
    my fav poem of all time is W H Audens candles of my life…

    can I suggest I furthur obsession, obviously you’ll need to look at some pictures first!…but the Ruta 40 in argentina….

    I just finished riding it on a motorbike… I dont think I’ll ever sleep again..unless of course its pitched in a tent beside it.

    thanks
    Oisin

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