Item 04: G. O. Hawkins letters to his family, 2 January 1915-November 1917 - Page 40
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speaking clearly and leaving Gods air the sweeter for it another voice swells forth as though a window in heaven had opened.
A woman sings
And sings in English
Yet the English is of little moment. Language matters not in the least, for a woman sings, and sweetly too but not so sweetly as Beatrice.
Where only men are they become vile. It is always so with those of ordinary capacity, yet as soon as a good woman comes amongst them they sweep up the front of their tents as it were and bury the rubbish and filth. Until she has gone.
A cursing Shakespeare or Bacon would be a blessed friend to have here with me. I admit.
I find it is really the vulgarity of men that is distasteful.
One could curse and be at home with his own. but the familiarity of vulgarity is what causes a man to rather be lonely than suffer it
I never could stand familiarity of the cheeky vulgar.
It is not a matter of morals. They dont count at all
It is not a matter of birth either but it is a matter of being naturally gentle.
Wordsworth and Swinbourne I think went to a war together once but they had many fine ideas shattered, and returned to nature once more were God seemed nearer to them than he was amongst men