Gone With The Wind

The 1939 Academy Award winning epic starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard is my favourite film ever. I've probably spent three or four days of my life watching the 222 minute epic and indeed, came down the aisle on my wedding day to Tara's theme.

The opening titles from the movie:
"There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind."

There's even a museum in Georgia dedicated to the movie.

But what I didn't know is that Margaret Mitchell (who wrote the book upon which the film is based) stole the line from a Victorian poet, Ernest Dowson. Later, the same poem also inspired Cole Porter's "Always True to You In My Fashion" which features in the musical Kiss Me, Kate.

Anyway, here's the poem