
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
Attention Scum! (2001), How To Live (2005)
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
All from The Vow of the Peacock - First Canto
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
(30th November 1822) Fragments in Rhyme V: the Happy Isle
7th December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme VI: The Painter's Love see The Improvisatrice (1824
14th December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme VII: Manmadin, The Indian Cupid. Floating down the Ganges see The Improvisatrice (1824
21st December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme IX: The Female Convict see The Improvisatrice (1824
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
“There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.”
Forty Singing Seamen
Poems (1906)
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 144.