How, but with some real focus
of desolation
could I, by analogy
imagine a Love
that, however often smeared,
shrugged at, abandoned
by a frivolous worldling,
did not abandon?

"Amor Loci" WH Auden (1965)

below Wednesday June 7
auden - limestone - how could I imagine - a perfect love - landscape - absolute - desolation
- - was looking for this - found not in In Praise of Limestone - then did not find by web search ! - found mention of Amor Loci and suspected that was where'd I find my line - but had to actually find my paper written 1996 for di piero's modern British poetry class--
to z0606 a ... on june 8 Auden: In Praise of Limestone but not the line(s) I want are not these - earlier limestone poem? - looked at for my di piero paper written at thnksgvg in modesto with iv - ~ precursor to here: when I try to imagine a faultless love Or the life to come .. what I see is a limestone landscape

with exact quote, do get one ggl hit:
Auden How but with some real focus of desolation could I, by analogy, imagine a Love that, however often smeared, shrugged at, abandoned by a frivolous worldling, ...
pages.britishlibrary.net/alan.myers/auden.html