Editorial eulogy of Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons, continued, closing with lines from Shelley (page 2 of 2)
Book 1, Page 473 ·1932-1965
Transcription
[Continuation from page 472.]
His family, and those of us so fortunate enough to be his friends, can only turn for solace to the inspiring words of Shelley:—
“He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world’s slow stain He is secure — — —”
[The verse is from Shelley’s elegy Adonais*, stanza XL.]*
Provenance note (in the same hand, lower half of the page):
The above is an editorial, published in the Charleston Record by Major Peter Gething who died a few weeks ago. Copied by Henry F. Rivers.
June 28, 1965.
AI Notes
Page is the second leaf of Maj. Peter Gething’s editorial eulogy (published Charleston Record, Sun. 15 Aug 1932) for the WWI combat aviator Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons — son of W. Huger FitzSimons + Annie Cain, not the compiler’s father Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. The eulogy closes with stanza XL of Shelley’s elegy ‘Adonais.’ Lower half of the page bears the provenance note: copied by Henry F. Rivers, 28 June 1965, shortly after Maj. Gething’s own death. Page 1 of the eulogy is p472.