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Roger Stalley - Dublin,
Ireland
Here is another of the pieces that was read at Larry's memorial. this one is from Roger Stalley, one of Larry's scholarly colleagues who teaches at Trinity College, Dublin. He read these words at the Cremation ceremony and forwarded them to me to read at our memorial. Jane Waldbaum
Larry was a good friend, loyal, cheerful
and supportive, someone who enjoyed good company. It seems appropriate
therefore to read a brief passage from Aelred of Rievaulx devoted to the
subject of friendship (Rievaulx was one of Larry's favorite sites and some
years ago he wrote an article on the Gothic choir).
"...friendship yields a harvest both in this life and the next; its very pleasures give play to every virtue, its vital force roots out the faultsand flaws, it tempers the ill wind and compounds success. in consequence there can be no true happiness for the man without a friend. Those who have none to share in their good fortune or their grief, none on whom they can unload their troubles, no one to whom they can communicate some sudden glorious illumination are like brute beasts...The man without a friend is a man utterly alone...what happiness, security and joy to have another self to talk with."
"Long years and days have we lived side by side Ne'er didst thou wrong me nor suffer wrong of mine, Now thou art dead I grieve to be alive."
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