1908: 101r
[E.C.]
Such a sweet smile Gordon gave
Michael from the carriage – so
a sun smiles over the green,
wheat he must sink hm[?]
behind & leave still green.
It made one very tender to
the gentle sufferer in his
laughter[?], to dwell in that
smile.
He has had two delicious dreams
(1)16 In a book bound in an
amber-skin this page was
shown[?] to his vision “ He
would substitute taste for
Salvation”. The Eighties
laughed[?] round are phantasmal.
Gordon reading was very much
frightened.
(2)17 Giorgione came & promised to
show him all the real
pictures he had painted, &
the tactless Gordon told
Giorgione that the Companile
was fallen . . . Giorgione vanished
. . . Fay declares not with sorry
– but with fear he had encountered
a bore!
Fay’s miniature of me kept him
drowsy[?] with wonder. I said
it frightened me, as if a seal
of the Last Judgment were on
it. “But it is only the revelation
of loveliness!” What wd Goss have