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Ode: Intimations of Mortality from Recollections of a Walk with My Daughter and My Camera in Little River Cemetery One Mile from Home This Afternoon

Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song,
And while the young lambs bound
As to the tabor's sound,
To me alone there came a thought of grief:
Who was Lillian Hillbom Rogers?

(Apologies to William Wordsworth.)

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[Janice Brown]

Lillian Hillbom Rogers, was the daughter of Henrik & Alma (Sahlin) Hillbom of Wallingford CT. She was the wife of Percy Couch Rogers, who was an instructor in French and Spanish from 1923-1966 at Phillips Exeter Academy. They lived on Boars Head in North Hampton. Her son is Brandon Miles Rogers who graduated from Phillips Exeter and then cum laude from Harvard College and from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1958 he was a senior planner with the Detroit City Plan Commission and a partner in the firm of Parkins, Rogers Associates, city planning and urban renewal consultants of Detroit.

J

[Janice Brown]

Apparently she wrote poetry under her Swedish name of Lilja Rogers. One of her most frequently quoted poems is:

"First the howling winds awoke us,
Then the rains came down to soak us.
Now before the mind can focus —
Crocus."
— Lilja Rogers

If you do a Google Book search you will find several other poems posted there.

Janice

[Amy]

Janice, you are the history goddess. Thanks! Very cool. I'll have to look for more by Lilja at our library.