Maggie's Farm

--sounds like 'acceptance' --in the spiritual lifting sense rather than the grinding bootheel sense.

PRJ's 'once great' description, really, that was basically the fifteenth century, the age of the great navigators and the great navigator state Portugal --but so short in duration it's almost cruel to make it the 'standard' from which the Portagee must be forever fallen.

The word's sense of elegy shaded with aspect of a 'turning toward the future' combine in --an elegy for the future? Hmm, not very anglo-saxon, that! I'd bet the Iron Duke never much used it during his Peninsular Campaign against the Little Corsican.

:-)

--bone-dread deep i hear ya. 'Nostalgia' is another odd word --sounds like a sinus or allergy problem, or that tingly feeling in the nose when a person is feeling sad and full of regret. It's 'spose to refer a warm & fuzzy emotion --and it does, it does, if there's not too much of it going around.