GR translation: night-dusted

[David Morris]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:20 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> P117.39-40  ..., glassy ambrotypes of her late husband Austin night-duste inside gilded frames up on the mantel ...
>>>
>>> What is "night-dusted"?

Poetic liscense allows for many interpretations.  "Portrait of late
husband night-dusted" may refer to the transformative effect of death,
what the Greeks called "Shades."  A person having  become a faded
memory, espcially in contrast to the bright guilded shade.