Nugget or Fools's gold??

I have always liked Taylor Caldwell
as a model of writing imagery and
vocabulary usage -- as well as meaningful plots.
My reading now is usually limited to a page a night
before the book falls on my face ...

but here is a line, just found, that could be
a seed for many poems, methinks --

I will attempt one later today.

enjoy, papa
........................................................

"Emma had had a very tragic life,
and therefore seldom seemed sad."