Richard Bell Davies

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    “So on we worked, and waited for the light,
    And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
    And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
    Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Where the bee sucks, there suck I,
    In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
    There I couch when owls do cry.
    On the bat’s back I do fly
    After summer merrily.
    Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
    Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.”
    —Robertson Davies (b. 1913)