title: North East in Eden: Tranquility and Beauty through the Darkling Glass
author: Dr David McLoughlin-Tasker
description: Based in York, England, David has been writing poetry since the age of seven, when he appeared in a National Teachers Journal. Since then his poems have appeared in many small magazines and latterly in Best Modern Voices with 'First Kiss' and also in many web publications. David commenced writing counselling and lifestyle articles in 1982. He was features editor for 'Stress News' and his work has appeared regularly in Direction, Backpax and Love Life magazines. He is a reviewer for author's works and also wrote and presented a six part series for television aimed at youth which won 'Gold Award' from CBC. David finds that writing poetry helps him wind down between assignments and fire up for the next session.
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  The Long Run
  
  
    
    
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  # The Long Run
  
  
  ### Edith Wharton
  
  
  
  
  
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  ###  I
  
  
  
  
  
  The shade of those our days that had no tongue.
  
  
  
  
  
  IT was last winter, after a twelve years' absence from New York,
  
  
  that I saw again, at one of the Jim Cumnors' dinners, my old friend
  
  
  Halston Merrick.
  
  
  
  
  
  The Cumnors' house is one of the few where, even after such a lapse
  
  
  of time, one can be sure of finding familiar faces and picking up old
  
  
  threads; where for a moment one can abandon one's self to the illusion
  
  
  that New York humanity is less unstable than its bricks and mortar. And
  
  
  that evening in particular I remember feeling that there could be no
  
  
  pleasanter way of re-entering the confused and carele