Was having a quick re-read of the cheerily titled " Night falls fast - Understanding suicide" by K. Redfield Jamison when this quote (by Lewis Grassic Gibbon) led me to wonder...
" ... It was not mother only that died with the twins, something died in your heart and went down with her to lie in Kinraddie kirkyard - the child in your heart died then, the bairn that believed the hills were made for its play, every road set fair with its warning posts ... That died, and the Chris of the books and dreams died with it, or you folded them up in their paper of tissue and laid them away by the dark, quiet corpse that was your childhood...
Then Mistress Munro washed down the body that was mother's and put it in a nightgown... and fair she made her and sweet to look at, the tears came at last when you saw her so... . But they ended quick, you would die if you wept like that for long, in place of tears a long wail clamoured endless, unanswered inside your head Oh , mother, mother , why did you do it ? (author's italics)
Obviously, it was the final phrase that made me sit up. Other than that, perhaps too far fetched...? As ever, though, speculating can't hurt...
" ... It was not mother only that died with the twins, something died in your heart and went down with her to lie in Kinraddie kirkyard - the child in your heart died then, the bairn that believed the hills were made for its play, every road set fair with its warning posts ... That died, and the Chris of the books and dreams died with it, or you folded them up in their paper of tissue and laid them away by the dark, quiet corpse that was your childhood...
Then Mistress Munro washed down the body that was mother's and put it in a nightgown... and fair she made her and sweet to look at, the tears came at last when you saw her so... . But they ended quick, you would die if you wept like that for long, in place of tears a long wail clamoured endless, unanswered inside your head Oh , mother, mother , why did you do it ? (author's italics)
Obviously, it was the final phrase that made me sit up. Other than that, perhaps too far fetched...? As ever, though, speculating can't hurt...