August 18 Thursday – The Clemens family was in Bad Ischl or Hallstatt, Austria on this the second anniversary of Susy’s death.

Sam wrote an eleven-page elegy to Susy Clemens, “Broken Idols”

Two years ago she died. Two years! To you 
The word is pleasant; it has not stung you 
In your heart: you cannot know how long that seems to me, 
Whose heart was once so filled with wealth 
And now so empty stands. 
This child was all the world to me, 
And I to her. I lived in her, and she in me. 
We were as one. And it was little like the common tie 
That binds the mother and the child, but liker that 
Which binds two lovers [H. Bush 263].