Jottings

" Wordsworth" said Charles Lamb "one day told me that he considered Shakespeare greatly
  overrated. There is an immensity of trick in all he wrote " he said, " and people are taken in by it. I could have written as well as he did if I had had a mind."

" So you see " (proceeded Charles Lamb quietly) " it was only the mind that was wanting "

From an article Arabian Days and Nights by Miss Power.
Essays in Mosaic by Thomas Ballantyne
A book belonging to China's grandfather found today coated in dust ; also containing a receipt dated July 1903 for the deposit of 2 pounds on a block of waterfront land in Hunters Hill .No uncashed cheques unfortunately!

ghosts of relatives
are all still alive and well
in china's study

peering from  photos
scratch their heads and think what is
he doing with her?

my lot look at us
from wall frames and think what is
she doing with him?