"I'm in your garden, fading fast in your arms"

[Karen Dean <s_kgdean@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>]

At 16:36 5/09/97 -0700, John D. Walker wrote:

>What happened to Princess Di last Saturday was horrible. I never really 
>paid that much attention to the royals, but Di was a pretty cool person 
>despite her faults and her poor taste in men. I am saddened by her death.
>
>That being said, am I the only person who finds EJ's reworking of "Candle 
>in the Wind" forced, contrived, and more than a little distasteful?

Well, as devastated as I am by Diana's death, my tiny remnant of cynicism
agrees, John.  Others have asked which Kate song seems most relevant in
this situation.  After the vision of the flower-strewn journey home, I
could only think:

"oh, England, my Lionheart 
dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge
give me one kiss in apple-blossom 
give me one wish, and I'll be wassailing 
in the orchard, my English rose 
or with my shepherd, who'll bring me home" 

 
Karen Dean