may-divinity

Updated: June 26, 2025

But, just at the moment when I thus thought and felt when I no longer suffered and no longer inflicted pain when my wife was not only virtue in my sight, but love, and beauty, and grace, and meekness all that was good and all that was dear besides; when my sky was without a cloud, and the evening star shone through the blue sky upon the green tops of our cottage trees, with the serene lustre of a May-divinity just then a thunderbolt fell upon my dwelling, and blackened the scene for ever.

William Gilmore Simms - Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story