the bloomsday

Hoje é Bloomsday, data fictícia comemorada oficialmente para homenagear Ulysses, romance de James Joyce. Se trata das aventuras de Leopold Bloom pelsa ruas de Dublin, no dia 16 de Junho de 1904.
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A Flower Given to my Daughter

Frail the white rose and frail are
Her hands that gave
Whose soul is sere and paler
Than time's wan wave.

Rosefrail and fair--yet frailest
A wonder wild
In gentle eyes thou veilest,
My blueveined child.

James Joyce, Trieste, 1913