Time's up: Answer time. Kudos to Lyle for proving an Isle of Man connection to this poetic reference. The words are on this overlooked (underlooked shurely -- ed) feature set high into the bricks of an apartment building on the 6700 block of Sherbrooke St. West, near Mayfair and the Con U Loyola campus. It just goes to show what surprises are sometimes in store when you look up.
Got me baffled. Mona's Isle was a ship... the first rescue vessel at Dunkirk. Is that the connection? Maybe she's remembered on a military installation or in the port?
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SWEET rural Isle ! may I, thy rustic son,
Sing of the charms that through thy customs run,
While pictured memories my soul inspire
My youthful scenes at forty to admire.
Tho’ doom’d by fate these twenty years to roam
Through many climes, from thee my native home,
Yet still fond memory, by its pleasing art,
Paints all the scenes of childhood on my heart;
And now since I have travell’d far and wide,
My thoughts and home I cannot yet divide;
There’s not a spot on earth that I can find
Like thee, my Mona, suited to my mind.
the rest of it is here: http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mi1844/p001.htm
Nice stuff all, but wide of the mark. It's answer time.
ReplyDeleteI rarely look up when I enter a massage studio, which is what I know 6700 Sherbrooke West for.
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