Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-87.102.2.235-20160720090052/@comment-27350660-20170722080057

68.36.13.17 wrote: I think Summer died when STRQ fought Salem. I think Summer's epitaph (Thus kindly I scatter) could suggest that her death may have been a mercy killing by one of her own. The middle verse of Thomas Moore's "The last rose of Summer" runs like this:

I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, to pine on the stem Since the lovely are sleeping, go sleep thou with them

Thus kindly I scatter thy leaves o'er the bed

Where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead

Maybe a situation where she and her companions were under attack, and she was wounded and couldn't  go on, and they didn't want her to fall into the enemy's hands. But I'm at a loss to fit that in with the people we know.