tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63974464911008050262024-03-14T05:34:33.861-04:00ScieppanAniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-86918198162570419292016-09-04T16:03:00.001-04:002016-09-04T16:03:28.638-04:00Naming the Laptop<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; }</style>
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After all, the
laptop is for writing. That is its essential purpose. Not browsing;
not movie-watching. A few days of testing and it seems to suit
admirably well. So it is time to get comfortable together and settle
down to some real work...to start with, writing, anything at all,
regularly.</div>
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So. The getting
comfortable part. Computer and I must feel like a team. I had a
long-term relationship with my last laptop, which has been succeeded
by no other for several years. In the interests of making the
pursuit of my writing a possibility, this one has come as a present. It meets my sole specifications. It has all
I need in a laptop. But we require finalization in some gesture---we
need a name to make us comfortable.</div>
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What is in a name??
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet...and I won't engage
upon Anne-esque commentary on that subject, but I always feel there
is a great deal in an aptly chosen name... let's see. Data won't do.
Nor just, "Computer." Like "Cat" in Breakfast at
Tiffany's. <span style="text-decoration: none;">Darlene sounds like a
personal secretary who eats too many donuts. Hm.</span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">I
think Cornelius is right.</span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Cornelius, the half-dwarf, wizard-tutor of Lewis' </span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Prince
Caspian. </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Cornelius,
the faithful believer precariously positioned as tutor in the royal
household drawn up along the sketchy lines of Hamlet and his usurping
uncle. Cornelius, who encounters endless prejudice on both counts of
faith and race, doing the best he can to honor truth in faithless
times and preserve a memory of history, even when history is denied;
reason, when reason is gainsaid by an empty tradition of lawless
lawmakers; literacy, when literacy is dangerous because of what you
read and what you learn from it...what ideas you might be prompted to
consider.</span></span></div>
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Yes. Cornelius is a fitting compatriot in these hapless times.
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Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-52422691273571154892016-09-04T15:58:00.001-04:002016-09-04T15:59:47.651-04:0012 am Rant<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; }</style>
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<span style="font-family: "nimbus roman no9 l" , serif;">So.
This is Times New Roman. That is, the Times New Roman spin-off.
The off-brand. The second-rate because of lack of name. That tag
you wear (or in this case, don't wear) that says, “look at me. I
have arrived.” But, it is in all qualities, alike. In no way
inferior. Not missing a single serif. But nameless. And therefore,
people don’t use Linux. Why not??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nimbus roman no9 l" , serif;">Prestige?
Laziness? Fear of the unknown?? Or fear of responsibility for one's computer life: the million unintended agreements and consequences that are entailed by pre-packaged OS's. Fear of the responsibilities of freedom.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "nimbus roman no9 l" , serif;">What
kind of nonsense do <i>you </i>write at twelve in the morning to test
a new laptop for its typewriting qualities? </span>
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<span style="font-family: "nimbus roman no9 l" , serif;">Gah.
There actually WAS an annoying note. An auto-correct. A phantom of
the Nazis, telling me, ME, how to spell. Words like antiquarian and
proletariat, thou and thee and the other. Grammar suggestions from
geeks. But the wrong SORT of geeks. The ones that do not KNOW how to
pronounce homogenous. That are unaware that two words co-exist and
that one, more greatly used, is now seen as a synonymous variation of
the other... which is nonetheless no argument for spelling
"homogenous" (as in milk) and saying homo-genius. People
who understand the most primitive logic required to code a computer,
those that indefatigably gabble garble with the screen in tiny
minutiae at 3 o clock in the morning accompanied by half an old
sandwich and a liter of mountain dew (and admittedly, without whom my resources in life would be greatly reduced). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "nimbus roman no9 l" , serif;">Telling Me how to spell. I
must interject an old-fashioned, disgusted, “Well, <i>really.”</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "nimbus roman no9 l" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">And
I mean it, too.</span> </span>
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Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-28048881580359926742014-01-09T13:13:00.003-05:002014-01-09T13:13:53.854-05:00A Turtle's Shell<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's cold. The icicles melted at last and fell, last week in a thaw. Maybe the week before. No time for more to grow in a freeze like this. On Saturday our lives took us into the countryside, and we watched the winter desert over the fields, around old barns, snake onto the road in a wind that had its teeth bared, tearing the ragged edges on living things. Like pictures of the Sahara. We said little but enough to see we thought the same thing-strangely attractive, like the deathly wildness in photographs of the great desert, but not an experience to be personally desired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today the ice is over the road again. The sidewalks are dangerous, the bitter wind and cold more so. My spouse looks out at a memory: a child in Poland, he stumbled on a drunk lying in such snow once. He was frightened--today the man he is knows that the drunken figure could have been more than drunk... dying, or dead. <br />I wonder, and so does my husband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But <i>Inside... ahhh. </i>What a satisfaction!!! All the time I have been away from my blog, I have been busy... giving life to a story, giving birth to a child... and sitting back in the warm shell of coziness and affection that cocoons us here away from the bitter winter, I survey the fruits of these labors with supreme content. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am proud of the story, of course, but the little family that now surrounds me is the finest work I have ever been privileged to be a part of. I have heard many a young writer (and some older), comparing writing stories to giving birth. I can only assume they have no children. It is a silly comparison, from the eye of one who is both writer and mother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have felt the keen edge of Joy, and been riven to the core by a story's "eucatastrophe," many a time in my life. There is a compelling magic in it, for certain. But the bringing to life of the most beautiful and touching story, is simply <i>not </i>to be compared with gazing awe-fully into the new, God-breathed soul that looks out from a newborn's wondering eyes. For that, the world stands still... the nursing mother holds a universe in her hands, and "ponders these things in her heart." </span></div>
Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-64199798160423577652013-11-14T11:53:00.001-05:002013-11-14T11:53:41.715-05:00Plead my Excuses! :)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>AWAY ON BLOGGER'S MATERNITY LEAVE; BACK SOON (-ISH)!</i></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have heard people say a great deal of late, particularly
in those academic circles I now spend the most time socializing with, on the
subject of “culture shock,” and that not of culture shock between really
different cultures, but merely between East and West Coast and the Midwest or
(worse still, in the speaker’s view) the South (all referencing regions of a
single nation, the United States).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course I am just as bad about underlining the virtues of
the Midwest or South in contrast with the East and West.<span> </span>I have as bad a taste in my mouth over the
unacceptably selfish attitutes and lack of hospitality or genuine caring of the
New Yorker as he has over the indolence or ignorance of “that place in the
middle.”<span> </span>We mutually regard each other
as somewhat unthinking and stuck in our ways: the Easterner or Westerner sees
me as crude, naïve, and dependent on provincial outdated values, while I regard
him as dependent on the “concrete jungle,” unable to sustain himself,
or to rest from the beehive in solitude, or be unafraid of dark or treed forest
because he is a spoiled child who has not yet ever faced himself Alone, and
sought out and wrestled what that meant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">But my experience in moving to the East Coast from Somewhere
in the Middle (as they fondly suppose it is all much more similar across the
Middle than on the Edges) is that if you mean the proper way to bake cornbread,
or how comfortable you may be in popping into your neighbor’s house while he is
away from home without prearrangement, then yes, there are many
differences.<span> </span>If you mean fundamental and
rockbed principles of human nature, then I must say I have found the old
Persian proverb to be truest: “The sky is the same color wherever you go.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">People used to believe there was such a thing as human
nature; essentially bad or essentially good, they might argue over, and
abominable ideas existed about this or that or the other people being a degree <span> </span>“less than human,” as Darwin and Nietsche and
so many others set out to demonstrate--but there <i>existed</i> such a thing, a commonality that made a human a person, and
in varying ways and times men and women have set forth their hands to define it
in broad but exact scope, in order to derive due respect for the dignity which
humanity as a state of being gives an individual as much as a group as much as
any other group.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">I cannot say that I find the recognition of such a state as
very prominent in these academic minds, any more than at large among the
uneducated… but again, what one sees is similarity more than
dissimilarity.<span> </span>When I am not defensive
or pugnacious about my roots, I must own that the same sins and the same
problems among most and the same virtues among a few, exist there as exist here
or anywhere else I have been; that where the crime rates and generally accepted
selfishness have not caught up may really be because a region is behind the
times, and not actually because the people in a particular place are en masse
truly better or better motivated than anywhere else, and wouldn’t like to go
farther.<span> </span>The teens and preteens, where
one looks for the signs of what the next generation is to be like, are fairly
identical from Missouri to New York, and beyond, to Poland, when I traveled
there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everywhere people make distinctions between each other which
are unimportant and wholly miss what distinctions ought to be important.<span> </span>Tolkien’s elves laugh at the hobbits, and
tease them: they say that all hobbits are alike, and the hobbits indignantly
insist they are not, which the elves cheerfully and carelessly disarm with the
comment that to sheep, other sheep must look different also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">So it is.<span> </span>The hobbits
are right: being a little and rural people has no less its set of distinctions
in society and custom, its little unique foibles and enjoyments, and has no
lesser right of being acknowledged and respected than anybody else’s… that more
people live elsewhere is no argument against the validity or importance of the
culture of fewer members.<span> </span>But
holistically the elves are correct in their assessment also, that there is such
a thing as hobbit-nature (or human nature) which makes them much more like each
other than like anything else in Middle Earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sky is the same color wherever you go, or as it says in
Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun.<span> </span>No one really invents any new people: the
more things change, the more they stay the same.<span> </span>People do not invent new sins, new pleasures,
new values: you can always hunt in old books and find the roots of whatever the
“new ideas” are currently.<span> </span>And people
are always longing, at all times: whether it be for the “new people” or “the
other places,” or something else that gets attached to it.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I taught school, the middle school girls were in awe
over my new shoes for a while because I bought them on a trip to Chicago: the
fact that I had bought them at a chain store which any of them might have done
identically in rural Missouri, and that it was a pair of shoes more or less
like their own, did not occur to them as specially detracting from the shoes’
aura of otherness.<span> </span>But as funny as it
seemed to me, if I transpose the feeling to any object from the UK, and most
particularly from those hallowed halls in Oxford, suddenly my own imagination
is seized in a similar way.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">After all, one of those human qualities is a looking-off, a
seeking, a longing for the beyond which we imagine on earth and yet never quite
discover where we are, for it is not on earth in the first place.<span> </span>It is a harder quality to see at times in the
urbane peoples of… everywhere, really, whether “urbane” means Kraków, or
London, or New York… because among the untravelled and rural peoples, the
Otherness longed for can simply and easily be imagined to exist somewhere, in a
city or a bigger city or another continent, but somewhere.<span> </span>Among the more travelled and widely
experienced urbane peoples, the place is further off, or else the Otherness desired
is a state of society that they seek to bring about… but the desire
of the intangible is there, all the same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shame, though, to us, if in our own knowledge of the lack of
the Otherness where we are, we find a contempt of those people who imagine it
might be… for imagining ourselves any closer to that Belonging Elsewhere which
makes us strangers and pilgrims on this earth, than our neighbors, merely
because we have been more places where we know it isn’t.<span> </span>For the sky is the same wherever you go:
humans all long for Something Else, and still however much they experience,
generally suppose they will find the Something Else here on earth under some
other conditions, without ever drawing the rather obvious conclusion that we
were <i>all</i> made for something beyond
what we see, and <i>that </i>is what we long
for.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Yet we express contempt each for the other's differentness, despite not being what we desire ourselves. Human nature, again; for while I know the Easterner has not got the Holy Grail of existence, I know the Midwestern culture has not got it either, and yet the easterner and I are both likely to behave and speak to each other loftily, as though we had. We want the Eternal; the Creator in whose likeness we are made; but we also want to be more special than our neighbors. On one hand we crave the significance of the created purpose, the inspired soul which can only be ours if it belongs as a human property given from Above to each and every member of the human race; and on the other hand, we desire it, in our petty vanities, somehow to be more significantly ours than anyone else's. It is a rather silly contradiction of human nature when you come to think about it...</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork">"A scent of ripeness from over a wall. <br />And come to leave the routine road<br />And look for what had made me stall, <br />There sure enough was an apple tree<br />That had eased itself of its summer load, <br />And of all but its trivial foliage free, <br />Now breathed as light as a lady's fan. <br />For there had been an apple fall<br />As complete as the apple had given man. <br />The ground was one circle of solid red. <br /><br />May something go always unharvested! <br />May much stay out of our stated plan, <br />Apples or something forgotten and left, <br />So smelling their sweetness would be no theft."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork">--Robert Frost</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I have always loved this poem; and the line "May something always go unharvested... Apples or something forgotten and left, So smelling their sweetness would be no theft" inevitably runs through my mind every time I smell roses over some neighbor's garden fence or sight some breathtaking beauty belonging to some stranger strictly. The vision is my own to harvest, and the stranger seems friendlier for sharing the bounty of their work and creativity this way.</span></span></span></div>
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<span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I have been terrible about posting at all this summer; but it is so hard to sit still when all the world is unharvested in some manner. The goldfinches on the volunteer sunflowers; the scents of the crab-apples crushed under foot traffic and days old with summer sunshine; the mottled sycamore bark sloughing off all over the walks where anyone who wants it may take it; the green beans on my own front fence (which are not unharvested but still keep producing, faster and faster); everything in life seems so chock full to the brim, perfect in prodigality.</span></span></span></div>
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<span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">"I cry you mercy," as they used to say in some of my favorite books, if I am inattentive to comments or long away from posting. But I suppose everyone has their un-harvest to be getting in, as the summer draws it's final breaths of damask and purple; I suppose we will be trysting and sharing the bounty of them all winter long. </span></span></span></div>
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<span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">So here are some of my summer gatherings-in, and I will post more when--well, when I do! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Deep, dark scarlet in their ripeness: dark as purple, brighter than blood, translucent where the sun struck and shining with the wet juices vibrant within. I was enchanted. I have found new appreciation for the brilliancy of reds but late... my heart wholly given long and strong to the cool palette, and I am far from abandoning my passion for my first and oldest color-love.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">But there is something still so imperially Persian, so royally insistent of attention, so vividly breathtaking in the brilliancy of the reds of the earth. Man doesn't mimic them by half, because such strength of color paired with translucency in light does not present itself often in invented mediums. But I digress... it was picking cherries I found a new glory. The unripe fruit and the sour cherries were vermilion, but the sweet, ripe cherries were dark as I have described, and yet... so crystalline, so wet, so <i>red.</i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday found us on a small family adventure, picking our own newly-ripened sweet cherries and a few humble raspberries. The July afternoon was cooler than it's wont but hot enough in the late sunshine. We gloried in the color, ate it like the old gods in rampant abandon, with the juices escaping down chins and over fingers. The harvest was so homelike, yet so novel: never having picked cherries, I had yet for many summers earned my college-keep in picking fruit or tending fruit. I have worked in peaches, and grapes, blackberries, and strawberries, and blueberries. I have seen a day when the summer sun vanished in a trice of sudden gloom and growl of thunder, and picked till my fingers were falling off, record gallons of berries before the storm... yet never seen the fields of cherries against the sky, glossy among the leaves. What new-found wonder! What beauty!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">We picked only for ourselves, and that too, was glorious fun: it felt like riotous waste and carelessness, to hunt around, to leave this tree behind and move to that, a thing the hired help must not do. What a difference paying rather than being paid makes, after all!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then it was more gathering and harvesting, more color on the shoreline. The waves rose up strong and the spray came far over the rocks, for it was a day with the wind high and in our faces. It was a challenge, it was a game, to watch the sand and stone roll along the edge like marbles or dice in Neptune's fist, and see the bright thing catch the light, and jump down before the waves and between the waves, to seize it first! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">After much of this darting in and out, sometimes without a wetting, but sometimes with, we emerged triumphant with a tiny handful of sea glass. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">What an evening; what a day! To make summer feel again so rampant, so Dionysian in abundance, so careless of scarcity and winter, that every day is another holiday for which the earth makes jubilee. And we, among it all, we walked like children and like kings, something of both. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">The blackbirds sang, and the goldfinches flitted in their fly-drop-fly from bush to bush. The green spaces so long coveted dazzled so seamlessly across every scene it made the eyes ache, and then the sun-sparkle lilted on the gray gray water that reached to meet the tall, turquoise sky... no place was left to rest a mortal eye, which felt the pain of seeing too much and still "not satisfied with seeing." How glory draws us always!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">And yet, how it wearies us... as if this kind of tiredness, which makes home and bed and familiarity so welcome, might have proceeded from the early days of Eden and be called by the other name of bliss.</span></span><br />
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Come away, O human child!<br />
To the waters and the wild<br />
With a faery, hand in hand,<br />
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">No posts and no word for the past month--during which I had the perfectly valid excuse of travel. Between each of the members of our little household, in the month of June we covered several thousand miles, from the East Coast to the West (and a little bit of Canada)!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">As impressive as it sounds, it was less glamorous contextually. My husband had two back-to-back conferences, one on one coast and the other, well, on the other. :) We had planned for several months for all of us to accompany my husband to the first conference, a place I yearn to go rather passionately. But necessary cuts to our personal budget forced us to amend the original plan and stay behind. However, rather than stay home alone for two forlorn weeks (or three) by ourselves, the little one and I therefore trekked back towards the Midwest for a gorgeous visit to the country. My husband then retrieved us by car, and we all made our way cross-country home again, here to celebrate our little family reunion with an in-house vacation of four days, during which we were home to no one but ourselves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Where I have been, Internet access has been sparse to non-existent... and admittedly fewer pictures got taken by either my husband or myself than could be wished: in just two or three places was there time or leisure to consider pictures. Our motto from long time back has always been that it is better to enjoy ourselves living life rather than preserving pictures of life going by around us. Most photography is not truly candid, anyway; we wilfully make things look the way we want them to look on screen, as it is too easy to make pictures in general and candid photos are generally, well, boring... not to mention embarrassing. However, we had three afternoons between us spent in capturing on camera.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">For the sake of getting back into blogging here at Scieppan, and also by way of apology for being away so long, I have decided to include some of the photos we did manage to take without labels from our trip, some easier and some more difficult to recognize, and anyone who cares to may puzzle over where we have been! </span></span><br />
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Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-6888553325283493572013-05-14T11:37:00.000-04:002013-05-14T14:03:47.269-04:00At the Last, Rain<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">A long, cool April, followed by the final thawing in May, stayed high and dry for the most part; there was a little cracked dust on the path between the lilac and the spruce. But after many long, sunny days (for which we counted ourselves blessed: it is hard to want more clouds after the long winter gloom) at the last, rain. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Come over the hills and far with me,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"If I had the power the storms for to rise,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I would make the wind blow out and I'd darken the skies,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Till the day that my darling sailed away from Culmore." </span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">"To the bad parts of America my love I'll go see,</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like a pilgrim I'll wander for the maid of Culmore." </span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"One morning you found me, alone by the shore;</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">You harbored me, bleeding, heart-shaken, and sore.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">You built me a thatched hut of white on green turf:</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">But loud in my ears drummed the sound of the surf."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"One nature danced to man's fiddle and pipe,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">But another sang notes of a song's archetype.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">With one self I longed for an anchor in earth,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">But another was chained to the sphere of my birth."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #134f5c;">"The ocean is dark, and the ocean, it's wild,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Oppressive, melancholy breezes sigh</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>With grays that cloud all clarity of forms</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>With memories and half-forgotten dreams</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Like ghosts, or mist, or cobwebs in the light</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Of early dawn."--ania</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Magnolias. A fleeting flower here in the north. Often as not killed entirely by a late freeze... never mind frost, one isn't safe from a freeze or a snow really, till June.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">But we've made it, finally, it seems for the year. A few wilted petals, a spoilt early crop or two... finally May is round the bend, and tolerably seasonable weather has appeared. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I though it safe to say "spring" by last Saturday. When the sun came out on high and the temps soared to a dizzying seventy Fahrenheit, that made it pretty certain. And yard sales which are heavily attended-that was another sign. But a fabulous afternoon barbeque picnic in the park by the river, with games to play, sealed the deal. Not because of the picnic itself, mind. We had a picnic two Sundays earlier...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">...in the Lenten roses and the bluebells of the Poet's Garden. But that wasn't what said spring. The fact is, nothing says spring as surely as the day that the young women en masse, as instinctively as the return of the robins, shave to respectability and don their light dresses and shorts. I don't know how they know.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Personally, I am always clinging, a little reticent and shivery, to my sweater on the first few balmy seventy-or-so days. I like nearly eighties to put on a sundress or skirt comfortably. And I am neutral on the matter of shorts, pretty well all summer. Moreover, going one more day without sitting in the sun, counting the little hairs on my knees that I missed (which is an eternal aggravation to me) is well worth one more day snugly sheathed in jeans.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Then there is the bother of dragging the tubs of summer clothes out of the basement, putting away the winter clothes, hoping devoutly you will not need them again the very next day, sorting through the family clothes, seeing what fits who and what needs permanently stored or donated... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This, I am sure, is why they invented the maxi-dress. For me. For women getting too old or too busy or too lazy or too many children or too whatever to heed the imperious call of the spring sun with all it entails. We can salute spring quietly in our own backyards, sip our mint tea, enjoy the wind in our skirts and shave solely our ankles!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">In the state of New York, 1 out of every three pregnancies ends in abortion annually. For African Americans, this statistic is even higher: <i>1 in 2. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">This isn't adequate, though; in this state of New York, a bill put forward by the present Governor, Governor Cuomo, called the Reproductive Health Act, postulates removing the few controls on abortion which exist in New York: abortion available throughout the term, legalization of abortion providers that are not licensed medical personnel, and the stripping of the state penal code of any judicial and legal recourse a woman might have if she experiences either malpractice during an abortion procedure or even the death of her unborn child due to domestic violence (she would still have recourse to sue for personal injury, but no harm to the child could be prosecuted). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Over time, people have defined human life based on how they feel about it. Even the scientists in my life, and they are many (as my husband is a graduate student in experimental physics), do not claim to be able to define life scientifically or coherently. A person is a person based on what? How the majority of society feel about them? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">In the Constitution of the United States, African American men are defined as three fifths human. This was not changed for nearly a century. Based on what? --How many people felt that being racially white makes you a full or <i>real</i> person. In Nazi Germany, a Jew or a Pole was not defined as a person. (Those of African descent were also considered sub-human in the evolutionary process.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Are these definitions wrong because we feel differently about them now, or were they wrong even when they were the status quo? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I<i> </i>do not like politicizing; this blog will not become that kind of forum. But this question of the definition of a human being, I find, is being answered in all sorts of ways by all sorts of people, solely based on their feelings... and this is an important question for all individuals everywhere to answer. Who is a human being? What constitutes a person? Is the definition of a person whatever the state or society endorse at any given period? If so, why does history condemn this practice? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Speak for life; speak for those who have no voice. Remember the past: let it inform your present. Let's stop repeating this terrible mistake of human history. </span></span>Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-64052347710465484052013-04-12T15:06:00.001-04:002013-04-15T09:55:19.025-04:00"I May Love Him": the World of Phantastes<div align="center">
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">"My mind was just reviving a little from it's extreme terror, when, suddenly, a flash of lightning, or rather a cataract of successive flashes, behind me, seemed to throw on the ground in front of me, but far more faintly than before, from the extent of the source of the light, the shadow of the same horrible hand. I sprang forward, stung to yet wilder speed, but had not run many steps before my foot slipped, and, vainly attempting to recover myself, I fell at the foot of one of the large trees. Half-stunned, I yet raised myself, and almost involuntarily looked back. All I saw was the hand within three feet of my face. But, at the same moment, I felt two large soft arms thrown around me from behind; and a voice like a woman's said:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">With that, the hand was suddenly withdrawn as from a fire, and disappeared in the darkness and the rain. Overcome with the mingling of terror and joy, I lay for some time almost insensible. The first thing I remember is the sound of a voice above me, full and low, and strangely reminding me of the sound of a gentle wind amidst the leaves of a great tree. ..."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">"... I know nothing more that passed till I found myself lying under a superb beech-tree, in the clear light of the morning, just before sunrise. ...I rose, and put my arms as far as they would reach around the beech-tree, and kissed it, and said goodbye. A trembling went through the leaves; a few of the last drops of the night's rain fell from off them at my feet; and as I walked slowly away, I seemed to hear in a whisper once more the words, : 'I may love him, I may love him; for he is a man, and I am only a beech-tree.' "</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">-Welcome to the world of Phantastes. Delightful. Deceptive. Dangerous. Everything you knew about Faerie... and maybe some things you don't. This journey into the realm of Faerie is also one thing many are not-deeply, intensely moral. As Madeleine L'Engle put it, "Surely, George Macdonald is the grandfather of us all-all who struggle to come to terms with truth through fantasy."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">This is one of my all-time, deeply personal favorites. At the end of the book, Anados (our hero and first-person narrator) returns to the world of men from the world of Faerie, but not without having been changed by the lessons he has gained in Faerie, with the fear that if he forgets, he will follow the same course again in the world of men, living twice his mistakes and follies, and ultimately, regrets. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">He ponders the chances that his adventures in Faerieland might have been merely dreams; but then, he sometimes hears whispers from the other side; the song of the beech tree still whispers to him in <span style="color: #38761d;">dreams</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">For my part, I remember the song of the beech when I hear the rain through the leaves of the trees in summer, and often in personal moments of love, I repeat them to myself as a sort of benediction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">But the beech-tree and her connection with Anodos, however appealing to my poetic and mythopoeic senses, is not what makes <em>Phantastes </em>ultimately so meaningful to me. The deepest lesson I gleaned from Macdonald in this romance is the clearest view of Humility I have ever gained.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have had recurring thoughts on doing an introspective post like this for a while. It is my belief that writers, especially young and early writers (but by no means exclusively young writers) have a nearly universal propensity to arrogance... well, I suppose the observation applies to artists in general, but it is more vivid in writers because one hears the arrogance in their creative voices, while with visual and other nonverbal arts it is less distinguishable. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now I am the first to be annoyed by "that tone" in another writer; but my husband is the first to notice it in <em>my </em>writing, to which I am often blind. You see, it is a Shadow: you try to look at it squarely and you can't catch hold of it. It's a peripheral edge; a tone, an aura. But that arrogance is the single difference between those authors that are merely good writers and those who have changed my life and the way I see the world in some intrinsic way. Almost universally, I can point to my favorite authors, and what I enjoy most about their writings is their frankness and personal understanding of the frailties of humanity. They deal with their own dignity with humor; they do not take themselves too seriously- they deal with the failings of others like a comrade-at-arms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">By contrast, those of us who seek to write or create at a younger age or stage often fall into our arrogance unintentionally... it is natural, if you use the unique view and voice you call your own to produce any work of art, your tendency will be to heed that voice and ignore the hum of critique. One grows used to being the door-opener, the light-revealer, the perspective-giver: the prophetic "voice of one crying in the wilderness." But this strength of seeing the world differently, of walking to the beat of a different drum, becomes a weakness on the other side of Janus.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">I had to do several exercises just to see it in myself... and now though I have caught the Shadow in my sights, it still gives me trouble. One exercise is to evaluate one's writing for eloquence- am I most poetic when describing myself? How much in turn do I describe my faults eloquently and candidly? Am I always portraying myself as this wonderful visionary person on the inside? And how much do I worship and adore my own works? (They also count when analyzing verbosity concerning the self.) What evidence does my work give about my passion? Is it really about itself, or is it about me and my glory?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Another: how many of my avid followers and readers and so forth are "younger" than myself? Put another way, do I surround myself with acolytes, with unmixed praise-givers? Do true and honest critics feel welcome in my little world? If they are not, it will indeed be a very little world. My best critic is my husband... he sees the world differently, so we have vastly varying views. I used to be very wounded when he did not value a poem I had written, or even necessarily understand it. But having someone with an opposite mental pole is truly important to the writing process.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The most difficult exercise I set myself (yes, I am using myself, but trying to do it introspectively, not handing down the laws of God, as it were, but offering personal observation from within) came after a successful writing professor in college first mentioned in a class that the weakness of young poets is self-absorption. He told us, "If you want to sound like mature writers, avoid the vertical pronoun." (That took me a while, a fellow classmate informed me that he meant 'I'). So I took the challenge, to find how difficult it might be. I set myself to write a series of poems on other people with absolutely no references to myself. This was so challenging that I realized how little I try to write through the eyes of others than myself... how can I hope to reach people, to impact their lives, if I do not understand them?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">In <em>Phantastes</em>,<em> </em>George Macdonald draws a stunning picture of humility. It was the most beautiful, freeing picture I have ever seen. Humility is not pretending that you don't know you are a good writer when you are. But it shouldn't matter. It shouldn't require repetition. No great author had to particularly sit singing his own praises (well, I suppose there was Thoreau!). We are called to a greater glory and purpose than our own... we sense this, but we turn around and pride ourselves on sensing it, thus going right back to the beginning, seeking our own vanity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">We laugh when we read Jane Austen's comic interpretations of people's foibles; the middle-aged baronet whose excessive personal vanity leads him to have full-length mirrors everywhere and wish not to be seen with any man whose hair is not "done" properly; the petty vicar's wife covered head to toe in ribbons and lace, who declares she has "a horror of being over-trimmed." We laugh; but is our personal artistic vanity on another level, or would someone with Austen's wit and talent find the humor at the heart of it? How often a blogger makes the claim "I hope I do not take myself too seriously!" But I've met very few who don't, starting at myself.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">I believe this post is all the more worthwhile because online I have encountered a world of entrepreneurial writers in the form of bloggers, bypassing the traditional publishing route by self-publishing on blogs, through Amazon, and in other venues. And for a long while, (as I am demanding in the capacity of critic), I encountered nothing special. But I have over time run into a small number of bloggers who truly write well-some admittedly better than myself, even in my own genres. And I believe the capacity for great writing is not dead... but the impediment which artistic arrogance creates is stunting our growth, and by avoiding the editorial process of common publishing, we have less reason than ever before to face and overcome that Shadow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are as much questions for me personally to revisit as any reader; and I will close with a final quote from the end of Phantastes; what is for me the pith of the whole thing:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">"My mind soon grew calm; and I began the duties of my new position, somewhat instructed, I hoped, by the adventures that had befallen me in Fairy Land. Could I translate the experience of my travels there, into common life? This was the question. Or must I live it all over again, in the other forms that belong to the world of men, whose experience yet runs parallel to that of Fairy Land. These questions I cannot answer yet. But I fear. ...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">May the world be brighter for me, at least in those portions of it, where my darkness falls not.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thus I, who set out to find my Ideal, came back rejoicing that I had lost my Shadow."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope all of us who set out to find an ideal of beauty and wonder in art, eventually come to a similar epiphany.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Honeybee on Chionodoxa I</i>, by Marek Haruza, 2012.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bluebell Woods at Coton Manor, by Jonathan Buckley. http://www.jonathanbuckley.com/</td></tr>
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Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-60345907735306630872013-03-26T14:46:00.000-04:002013-03-26T14:48:33.684-04:00Do You Know Him?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">"How deep the Father's love for us<span style="font-size: large;">,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">How vast beyond all measure<span style="font-size: large;">,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">That He should give His only Son</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">To make a wretch His treasure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">H<span style="font-size: large;">ow great the pain of searing <span style="font-size: large;">loss<span style="font-size: large;">:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Father turns His face away</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">As wounds which mar the Chosen One</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bring many sons to glory.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Behold the man upon a cross,</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">My sin upon His shoulders</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Asha<span style="font-size: large;">me<span style="font-size: large;">d I hear my mocking voice</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Call out among the scoffers.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was my sin that held Him there,</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Until it was accomplished;</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">His dying breath has brought me life:</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know th<span style="font-size: large;">at it is fin<span style="font-size: large;">ished.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will not boast in anything,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">No gifts, no power, no wisdom;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But I will boast in Jesus Christ-</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">His death and resurrection.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why should I gain from His reward?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I cannot <span style="font-size: large;">give an answer;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But this I kn<span style="font-size: large;">ow with all my heart,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">His wou<span style="font-size: large;">nds have paid my ransom."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>Hymn by Stuart Townend</i> </span> </span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">www.spiritmeatreaders.blogspot.com</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this season when <span style="font-size: large;">many Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus, <span style="font-size: large;">I think it is a<span style="font-size: large;"> perfect week to share: "the old, old<span style="font-size: large;"> story<span style="font-size: large;">/ that I have loved so long." <span style="font-size: large;">Here is how it begins: Once upon a time, a long time ago, God said:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge<span style="font-size: large;">; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no pr<span style="font-size: large;">iest to me: seeing that thou h<span style="font-size: large;">ast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy chil<span style="font-size: large;">dren.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">As they were increased, so they sinned against me: <span style="font-size: large;">there<span style="font-size: large;">fore will I turn their glory into shame.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Th<span style="font-size: large;">ey eat up the sin of my people, and they set t<span style="font-size: large;">heir heart on their iniquity.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">And there shall <span style="font-size: large;">be, like people, like pries<span style="font-size: large;">t: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their doings.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">For they shall eat<span style="font-size: large;">, and not have enough<span style="font-size: large;">: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whoredom and wine and new wine t<span style="font-size: large;">ake away the heart."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>Ho<span style="font-size: large;">sea 4:6-11</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>www.rastafamx6.blogspot.com</i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i> "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the latter and former rain unto the earth."</span></span><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>-Hosea 6:1<span style="font-size: large;">-3</span></i> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kcet.org/updaily/the_back_forty/assets_c/2012/07/Ocotillo-rain-storm-7-31-12-thumb-600x400-33410.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://www.kcet.org/updaily/the_back_forty/assets_c/2012/07/Ocotillo-rain-storm-7-31-12-thumb-600x400-33410.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ocotillo and storm clouds, </i>Dan Eckert via www.kcet.org</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">"For in Him we live<span style="font-size: large;">,</span> and move, and have our being<span style="font-size: large;">; as certain also of your own poets have said,<span style="font-size: large;"> For we also are H<span style="font-size: large;">is offspring.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of <span style="font-size: large;">God,<span style="font-size: large;"> we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now c<span style="font-size: large;">ommandeth all men everywhere to rep<span style="font-size: large;">ent."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>Acts 17:2<span style="font-size: large;">8</span>-30</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i> </span></span> </span>"These things have I written unto y<span style="font-size: large;">ou that be<span style="font-size: large;">lieve on the name of the Son <span style="font-size: large;">of God<span style="font-size: large;">; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>1 John 5:13</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i> "And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">They say unto Him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now Moses in the law commandeth us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">This they said, tempting Him, that they might have to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote on the ground, as though He heard them not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">And again He stooped down, and wrote on the ground.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Jesus had lifted up Himself, and saw none but the woman, He said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then Jesus spake again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>John 8:3-12</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i> "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">-<i>John 11:25-26</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>He is Risen, </i>Arthur Hughes, 1893-96</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"He is not here, but is risen: remember how <span style="font-size: large;">He spake unto you when He was yet in <span style="font-size: large;">Galilee,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Saying, The Son of man must be delive<span style="font-size: large;">red into the hands of sinful men, and be cruci<span style="font-size: large;">fied, and the third day rise again."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>Luke 24:7</i> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i> </i></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i> "This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ne<span style="font-size: large;">ither is there salvation in any ot<span style="font-size: large;">her<span style="font-size: large;">: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>Acts 4:11-12</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="font-size: large;">Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ<span style="font-size: large;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">By whom<span style="font-size: large;"> also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>Romans 5:1-2</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"</i><span style="font-size: large;">There is therefore now no condemnation to them which a<span style="font-size: large;">re in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the <span style="font-size: large;">law of the <span style="font-size: large;">S</span>pirit of <span style="font-size: large;">l</span>ife</span> <span style="font-size: large;">in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and <span style="font-size: large;">death."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">-<i>Romans 8:1-2</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, <span style="font-size: large;">nor angels, nor principali<span style="font-size: large;">ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nor h<span style="font-size: large;">eight, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>-Romans 8:38-39</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"For God hath not given us <span style="font-size: large;">the</span> spirit of fear<span style="font-size: large;">; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according t<span style="font-size: large;">o the power of God<span style="font-size: large;">;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to <span style="font-size: large;">His own purpose and grace, which was given us in <span style="font-size: large;">Christ Jesus before the world began,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But is now made manifest by the appearing <span style="font-size: large;">o</span>f our Savio<span style="font-size: large;">r <span style="font-size: large;">Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gos<span style="font-size: large;">p<span style="font-size: large;">el:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whereunto I [Paul] am appointed a preacher, and a<span style="font-size: large;">lso an apostle, and a teacher</span> of the Gentiles.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the which cause I <span style="font-size: large;">also suffer these things; never<span style="font-size: large;">theless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-37312813636210795972013-03-15T11:55:00.003-04:002013-03-16T00:11:09.565-04:001798-1898: Boolavogue<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Of late I have been enjoying the rollicking folk music performed by the acclaimed male Irish vocalists, the High Kings. Their choice of songs, like those of Loreena McKennitt, send me seeking the historic backdrop against which they play out. I was particularly enjoying the song entitled "Boolavogue" in mid-February when I unearthed it, but only idly absorbing a few of the lyrics (I was neck-deep in elaborate Valentine dinner preparations) when one curious line gripped my attention: "For Father Murphy of the County Wexford sweeps o'er the land in a mighty wave."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The distinctly martial flavor of this line, juxtaposed with the unlikely leadership of an Irish priest, intrigued me. Dinner plans abandoned, I set forth on an odyssey into the Regency Era and pre-O'Connell attempts at Irish liberation from English rule. The lyrics that captured my attention referred to a rebellion of Irishmen that took place in 1798. While there was an attempt by the United Irishmen to rally all Irish regardless of religious persuasion to push for reforms of the Irish Parliament during this year (with force if necessary), the plan had been largely unsuccessful and the County Wexford was particularly quiet-- until, that is, the parish of one priest by the name of John Murphy and their near neighbors began to suffer incursions at the hands of the English soldiers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">John Murphy had hitherto counseled his parishioners to refrain from violence and live at peace with their conquerors. The articles I read seemed not to agree as to the exact account of what changed his mind, but all were agreed that infractions against his parishioners by English soldiers forced Murphy to change his position drastically. In fact, so drastically that he took up arms and led them, and the hitherto peaceful county of Wexford rose up behind him in a way unforeseen by the English. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Murphy proved to be a surprising tactician and won a battle against the English and several skirmishes; this could not last, however, and the uprising was shortlived and brutally crushed. Other leaders of the uprising (Protestant as well as Catholic) also achieved some victories, but on all fronts they were summarily defeated in the end. John Murphy, once caught, was sentenced to death. He was equally brutally killed, and his head, as well as the heads of other Irish leaders in the uprising, were displayed on pikes subsequent to their executions. The disgusting violations of human dignity via the soldiery during this "polished" era of society was astounding, but the tale of Ireland's struggle for freedom is better known than most so- skipping ahead...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">1801. The backlash of the 1798 rebellion finalizes in an act binding Ireland more closely to England than ever: the Acts of Union, passed in 1800 and coming into effect in 1801 (which acts, notably, have <i>never</i> been repealed by Great Britain, although they have been so by Ireland). Rather than free Ireland, the attempt only gave an excuse to dissolve the Irish Parliament (already largely a puppet of the English government).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Many of us have islands of history in our memory. This is a primary reason I like historical works that take a single year or era for their focal point; they unite a lot of the "islands," in that you realize how many things you recall learning about individually actually occurred during the same time and had bearing (or should have had) on each other. So what else was going on? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">In English literature, the Romantic Period traditionally is dated from the same year: 1798, the year Coleridge and Wordsworth published their <i>Lyrical Ballads.</i> Think Regency; this was all shortly prior to the rise of our beloved Jane Austen's literature (as we all know, 2013 is <i>Pride and Prejudice's</i> grand bicentennial year). As far as religious freedom is concerned, in Britain and Ireland even before the Acts of Union, only members of the established church could hold office as MP's and participate in the vote, meaning Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, and others had no real representation in Parliament. To envision the political climate, think Wilberforce; the famed fight for abolition which is central to the wonderful film <i>Amazing Grace</i>, the "Saints" who were so mockingly dubbed because they took their faith seriously and the reformation of society deeply to heart. Also keep in mind, the powerful Prime Minister who emerged to define an era of history unto himself in William Pitt, a king who went insane, a France marching toward empire under Napoleon, and the young United States, a fledgling nation with a federal constitution of under five years in age, embarking upon threats to newfound ideas of freedom already in the reactionary legislation known as the Alien and Sedition Acts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Wow!!! What I love about history is it's complexity; what I hate about history is also- it's complexity. As Shakespeare so famously put it, "All the world's a stage,"-- a stage which rivals the most multifarious novel or film with it's tangled skein of narrative. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">So many things can be written here- anyone truly interested in the subject is advised to switch to scholarly articles because there is no way the scope of this post can include all the different factions, parties, convictions, and events of this period. I am not following one thread because I believe it is all there is to be said on the subject; I am simply doing so for sake of time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">And my thread, in honor of St Patrick's Day, is to take a peep back at one century of Irish history in broad strokes. So back to my story: Catholics were, in the course of several decades, given the right to hold office in Parliament. The "Catholic Emancipation" as it is sometimes called, grew in general favor over time but did not finally and formally come about until the famous Daniel O'Connell, "the Liberator," entered the scene, forcing the issue by running for office in County Clare and being elected <i>twice</i>. O'Connell fought his battles on the stage of Parliamentary procedure, like Wilberforce; unlike Wilberforce, he did not see his labor come to entire fruition in his day. Nonetheless, his skill as an orator, his passion for what was right (O'Connell was also an avid abolitionist and spoke out widely against American slavery, which was still in full force), and for me, most commendable of all, his nonviolence, all deserve great recognition and served to bring the issues of Ireland to the attention of many beyond the borders of his country. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The 19th century for Ireland saw the Acts of Union at it's beginning; it saw the entire career of Daniel O'Connell; and finally, mid-century, it saw the terrible famine that drove millions of Irish from their homeland as immigrants, from which so many American citizens today derive their heritage and which is commemorated beautifully in Boston, MA.</span></span><br />
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The song embraced the strong terms of the United Irishmen and the cause of a completely free Ireland, not least because the issue would not reach it's <span style="font-size: large;">culmination until the twentieth centu<span style="font-size: large;">ry.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fast forward to 2013, and th<span style="font-size: large;">ese actual events have become <span style="font-size: large;">more recessive and distant to our imaginations than the<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">legend as remembered in song<span style="font-size: large;"> and performed beaut<span style="font-size: large;">ifully by the High Ki<span style="font-size: large;">ngs.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">T</span>h<span style="font-size: large;">at</span> legend, however, reta<span style="font-size: large;">ins the grain of truth at it's heart<span style="font-size: large;">:</span> the deeds which c<span style="font-size: large;">an be sparked by th<span style="font-size: large;">e </span>passion of patriotism, the burning awareness of "inalienable" rights, and the fundamental desire of humanity to be free. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">---Or not? For further reading, I recommen<span style="font-size: large;">d sta<span style="font-size: large;">rting with the article "The 1798 Irish Rebellion" at the following link:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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-I also read articles from Wikipedia to get me started, but I don't recommend these as a final source; I would fact-check in other places also. For information on Daniel O'Connell's role in abolition, and his link with Frederick Douglass, there are articles available freely online from "History Today." I read two, and they had far more of interest to offer than I could include here: Vol. 47 issue 5, 1997, and Vol. 57 issue 12, 2007. There are additionally many other resources available online. I additionally recommend the historical fiction trilogy which takes place in Ireland during the life of O'Connell written by Brodie and Brock Thoene: <i>Only the River Runs Free. </i>While fiction, this series explores many of the very real aspects of the situation in Ireland during the mid-nineteenth century.Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-6859391205680705662013-03-12T14:52:00.002-04:002013-03-12T19:42:30.556-04:00I<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">"<i>Come
back to us; come back to us</i>,” </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">they whispered, one and all— </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">“<i>Come…
we are important</i>.” </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then came a
gentler call.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Stay
here, love, for here you <i>are</i> loved,” </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">(like breezes through limbs of pines</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">When
the nighttime world lies silent, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the moon, still placid, shines).</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> “<i>Nay, nay!</i>” hissed the thousand voices. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> “<i>Better are we by far, </i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And
stronger is light of street lamp </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>than yonder pale-lit star.</i>”<i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Again
they clamored, tempting, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">“<i>Realistic is your life!</i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You
need the pace of computers </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> and the spice of busy strife.</i>”</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">They
knew a weak one wavered; </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">they sought to use weak will—</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then
again came the single clear voice,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> commanding them all<span style="font-size: large;">:</span> “Be still.”</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Child,
did <i>I</i> not form you? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Do <i>I</i>
not know what is good?</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">It
was <i>I</i> who first thought of a garden; </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">it was <i>I</i> who first planted a wood.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Wild_Arum_Lily_(222274796).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Wild_Arum_Lily_(222274796).jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">by Tony Hisgett, "Wild Arum Lily," 2005</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.prolifelouisiana.org/uploads/images/Ultrasound/3D%20BABY%20PICS_6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.prolifelouisiana.org/uploads/images/Ultrasound/3D%20BABY%20PICS_6.JPG" width="288" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">unborn child, 24wks. http://www.prolifelouisiana.org/education/fetal-development/a-louisiana-ultrasound.html</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I </i>it was who created the lily; <i> </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I </i>commanded the wind to blow.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I </i>shaped each baby’s fingers, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">and <i>I </i>saw it good for things to grow.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Running
here, the river, <i>I </i>set in,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and laid
the sky: </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
didn’t give time wings</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"> because I meant him not to fly.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greer Spring. by schlueterphoto.com</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
wrote you in the red earth </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">that your father learned to till;</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
gave you this tomorrow </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the Joy of my own will.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Work
hard, and be content, child, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">with your splendored halls of light;</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I’ll</i> be with you, small one, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">and will
give your soul its flight.” </span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="File:Meadowlark page 1805.jpg" height="207" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Meadowlark_page_1805.jpg" style="cursor: move; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ill. The Home and School Reference Work. ed. H.M. Dixon 1917.<br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Eastern_Meadowlark.ogg" target="_blank">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Eastern_Meadowlark.ogg</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">The
house is still this morning; all asleep</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Are
those within, as quiet sunbeams drift</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Through
open windows, from the far-off deep </span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Of
space, still shining. Leafy branches
sift</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">The
golden travelers, which run in streams</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Between
to reach the house, where on the floor</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">They
lie, and shifting still in changeful gleams, </span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Together
seem alive. </span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">The
open door</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Invites
the symphony of wind and light</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">And
meadowlarks to enter and to fill </span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">This
habitation. Wild, summer-bright,</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">The
music resonates with strength of will.</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">On
waves of glory, greater purpose breaks;</span></div>
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Creation
the most perfect sermon makes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Moritz_von_Schwind_004.jpg/732px-Moritz_von_Schwind_004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="File:Moritz von Schwind 004.jpg" border="0" height="327" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Moritz_von_Schwind_004.jpg/732px-Moritz_von_Schwind_004.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morgenstunde, by Moritz von Schwind, 1858.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUO2mD0QdYLZEldxz0y2HSsAMgZiKlguUSOQ0rYc04Bsni1NuksCvPdoZVsNLUqomN1UlpI3-_KRKC9W-2ij7QF-y6RcRaxFrWNnkOA5Wr49SoaQLthsSro6_me2adWAQy74OMFkPzRlR/s1600/092.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUO2mD0QdYLZEldxz0y2HSsAMgZiKlguUSOQ0rYc04Bsni1NuksCvPdoZVsNLUqomN1UlpI3-_KRKC9W-2ij7QF-y6RcRaxFrWNnkOA5Wr49SoaQLthsSro6_me2adWAQy74OMFkPzRlR/s200/092.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carolina Rose. Cornell U., 2012.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="File:Western Meadowlark singing.jpg" height="209" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Western_Meadowlark_singing.jpg/800px-Western_Meadowlark_singing.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo by Alan Vernon, 2009. Western Meadowlark singing.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </span></span></div>
Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-26384644368003361222013-03-01T14:48:00.000-05:002013-03-01T14:48:54.066-05:00An Edwardian Lady: Edith Holden<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">flickr.com</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">As March arrives, yet another slushy bit of weather blows in with it- more fitful snow, more grayed-out, slushy, muddy snow-puddles on the ground and running down the sidewalks ankle deep. The only month motto that ever really comes to my mind comes in March: "March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb." I hope it is true this year... I have seen the little bulbs thrusting their green noses up through the black earth in patches where the snow is gone, and they know better than I when spring will truly come. Perhaps then the snowdrops <i>will</i> in fact bloom in March, as they did last year and the year before that... my photos tell me so, only I am reluctant to hope when I look out the window.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Being reminded however, of the expression concerning the month of March and it's propensity to begin with the temper of winter and end with the foretaste of spring, also reminds me of a well-loved book: <i>The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. </i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Composed by Edith Holden in the year 1906, it is a beautiful example of watercolor artistry and observation of the natural world. Entitled by Holden as "Nature Notes," she produced the work as an example for young girls who were her art students at the school at Solihull in England, where she taught for three years (1906-1909). The work spans the entirety of the year in the form of a nature diary, in which Holden explores each month, and often each day, through it's progress through the seasons. The talented painter illustrated her volume with birds, flowers, plants, insects-- all incorporating the minute realism of the naturalist combined with the romance of the artist and the intriguing notes of the folklorist, including details about local beliefs and sayings concerning various dates, weather patterns, and seasons. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><img height="290" id="irc_mi" src="http://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/image-from-a-country-diary-of-an-edwardian-lady.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The journal was composed solely for teaching purposes and, one imagines, personal enjoyment, but without intent of publication. Holden was known for her artwork as a children's illustrator; her nature notes, or <i>The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady</i>, as it came to be entitled, was published posthumously. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The author/artist was married two years after she ceased to teach at Solihull. Her career as an artist, as well as her personal life however, were both cut short by her early death nine years later. Edith Holden drowned in the Thames, while collecting flowers and plants along the banks... we are left with a wistful image akin to Ophelia, and a beautiful example of the period in both art and science, not published until 1977.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">If I am yearning for a country walk in England about a hundred years too
late, this is the book I open. In that sense not unlike Monet's
haystack series, reading this book is like living in one place,
observing the changing weather pattern and seasons, giving the reader
and viewer a window in on the wealth of variety to be observed with very
little change of location at all.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">bedsidetablebooks.wordpress.com</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">It is a gray day;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">The gray clouds
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Gray rain on a
dripping</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Gray city.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">This is the only
way</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">I like to see it;</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">It lends a tragic
grace </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">To all these sad,
gray, twisted </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Trees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Sometimes, I
think they are </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Bitter against
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">That made them
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">But on gray days,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">They are only
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Sad
they are ugly;</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Sad they are old;</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Sad that they die
in a world of</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Concrete.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 2in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Today is a gray
day.</span></span></div>
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Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-21472743380925690822013-02-20T14:38:00.000-05:002013-02-20T14:39:07.234-05:00Egg Yolks and Tennyson<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Half a cup, half a cup, half a cup onward; </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">All in the valley of eggs </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">I squeezed out the oranges."</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps my adaptation of the Charge of the Light Brigade's opening lines was not very inspiring, but it was with quite as much zeal as they that I plowed through the newly-discovered recipe for orange chiffon cake this morning... and with quite as much hopelessness, may I add!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">First, it was the mistake about the orange juice. When my husband poured out the last glass this morning, I stopped him- I had wanted it for Something. But I could not remember what the Something was. It must have been that I wanted some for the little one's oatmeal? But no!!! Hours too late, gazing at my recipe with distress, it finally occurred to me that orange chiffon cake requires orange juice. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">After a few seconds of bitter self-accusatory reflection, and regret for the kind of disintegration that begins to take place in the mind with age, and visions of reincarnating various actions of my mother such as attempting absentmindedly to put dirty dishes in the laundry hamper, I gathered renewed vigor. I had a bag of oranges, and had to zest a couple for the cake anyway. I would therefore simply squeeze the required amount of juice as I would from lemons; time would be all I would lose.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I was squeezing the oranges, my new version of Tennyson's poem began to whisper itself in my ear. Amused with the first line, little did I realize it was a dire prophecy. Next was the remembrance that I had broken the electric mixer, and my other quick fix idea for beating the egg whites hadn't worked. I am all for doing things by hand, but beating eight egg whites until they form stiff peaks with a whisk is not my idea of a good time. Daunted but not beaten (pun intended), "perplexed but not in despair," I threw them into the blender until they were frothy and then beat them the rest of the way by hand.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Midway through the egg crisis, of course, came the knowledge that I have no cream of tartar. After two weeks of gleaning ingredients carefully, the time to bake arrived without cream of tartar. After a sidetrack or two online, reading odd facts about cream of tartar and it's origins, I found the due substitute. And here, several hours later, the cake is finally cooling on the rack. But who knows whether it will come out of the pan???</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Forward the Cake Brigade!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Was there a cook dismayed?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not tho' she knew it was she</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who had blundered.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oranges not to make reply,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Egg whites not to reason why,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Theirs but to do or die-</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Into the batter for baking </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">I squeezed out the oranges."</span></span>Aniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081532061650767209noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6397446491100805026.post-51023437473108627132013-02-16T22:30:00.000-05:002013-02-16T22:20:15.942-05:00There... and Back Again. A Flower's Tale.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">"I'm going out to clear the pasture spring.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">I'll only stop to rake the leaves away</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">(And wait to watch the water clear, I may).</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">I shan't be gone long. You come too."</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">-Robert Frost, "The Pasture"</span></i></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d;">My favorite tree! an ancient European beech.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"> <span style="font-size: large;">"There's not a flower on all the hills, -the frost is on the pane;</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again."</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Alfred Tennyson, "The May Queen"</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">"I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high-</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">I long to see a flower so before the day I die."</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">"The May Queen"</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">"My life flows on in endless song;</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Above earth's lamentation</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">I hear the sweet tho' far-off hymn</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">That hails a new creation.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Thro' all the tumult and the strife</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">I hear the music ringing;</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">It finds an echo in my soul--</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">How can I keep from singing?"</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">-hymn, attr. Pauline T.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">"What tho' my joys and comforts die?</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">The Lord my Savior liveth;</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">What tho' the darkness gather round?</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Songs in the night He giveth."</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">"No storm can shake my inmost calm</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">While to that refuge clinging;</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Since Christ is Lord of heav'n and earth,</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">How can I keep from singing?"</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">"My life is like a frozen thing,</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">No bud nor greenness can I see:</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Yet rise it shall-- the sap of Spring;</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">O Jesus, rise in me."</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Run over the world with shining feet </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And rhymes of light where waters meet,</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where waters laugh, where waters flash</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And stones are stars; thereover dash<span style="font-size: large;">,</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carry my cry and my call: my Song</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">has one note, and that note, strong.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bur<span style="font-size: large;">n under the sky in words of gold</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">A met<span style="font-size: large;">eor's tale. To the god<span style="font-size: large;">s unfold</span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another highborn love, though late.</span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nothi<span style="font-size: large;">ng is chance<span style="font-size: large;">: the rest is fate.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Brandish <span style="font-size: large;">the headlong flame of God,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your holy sword a lightning rod</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Between two beings below the sun<span style="font-size: large;">-</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">By Time-Space two, by God-Will<span style="font-size: large;">, one.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Run over the world, to the living end:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">You sought <span style="font-size: large;">out Psyche, now seek my Friend.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cupid and Psyche. Antonio Canova, 1787.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">www.layoutsparks.com</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Old Old Story." John William Godward, 1903.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">"<span style="font-size: large;">Indifferent, the clouds drift on above</span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">In skies of glass, obliviously blue</span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And careless of the costliness of love.</span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today I ache with growing pains anew."</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> "</i></span></span><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">She's got blue eyes like the sea,</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> That roll back when she's laughi<span style="font-size: large;">n' at me;</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> She rises up like the tide</span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The moment her lips meet mine." </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> --Plain White T's "Rhythm of Love"</span></span></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Kiss," Francesco Hayez, 1859.</td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> " 'I wonder who first discovered the effi<span style="font-size: large;">cacy of poetry<span style="font-size: large;"> in driving away love!<span style="font-size: large;">'</span></span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">'</span>I have <span style="font-size: large;">been used to consider poetry as the <b><span style="font-size: large;">food</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> of love,<span style="font-size: large;">'</span> said Darcy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">'Of a fine stout healthy love it may. Every thing nourishe<span style="font-size: large;">s what is strong alre<span style="font-size: large;">ady. But if it be on<span style="font-size: large;">ly a slight, thin sort of inclinati<span style="font-size: large;">on<span style="font-size: large;">, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.<span style="font-size: large;">'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Darcy only smiled..."</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">--<b>Pride <span style="font-size: large;">and Prejudice</span></b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Heigh ho! Sing heigh ho! unto the green holly<span style="font-size: large;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most friendship is feigning<span style="font-size: large;">, most loving, mere folly:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then heigh ho<span style="font-size: large;">,</span> the holly!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This life is most jolly."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">--<span style="font-size: large;">"Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/1805-Gillray-Harmony-before-Matrimony.jpg/640px-1805-Gillray-Harmony-before-Matrimony.jpg" class="decoded" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/1805-Gillray-Harmony-before-Matrimony.jpg/640px-1805-Gillray-Harmony-before-Matrimony.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harmony before Matrimony. James Gillray, 1805.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"You have both of you some<span style="font-size: large;">thing, to be sure<span style="font-size: large;">, but it is not a trifle that will support a family nowadays; and after all that romancers may say, the<span style="font-size: large;">re is no doing without money.<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
<i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">--Isabella Thorpe <b>Northanger Abbey</b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Northanger Abbey</i> illustration. C.E. Brock, 1907.</td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"...Ah, my God</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">What might I not have made of <span style="font-size: large;">Thy fair world,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Had I but loved the highest creature here?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was my duty to have loved the hig<span style="font-size: large;">hest<span style="font-size: large;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It surely was my profit had I known:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">It would have <span style="font-size: large;">been my pleasure had I seen.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">We needs must love the highest when we see it."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Idylls <span style="font-size: large;">of the King</span></b> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"View out my window."</td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"And it seems like the time when after doubt</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our love came back amain;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">O come forth into the storm and rout,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">And be my love in the rain."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">"A Line-Storm Song," Robert <span style="font-size: large;">Frost</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photograph by David Koiter, 2009. flickr.com</td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I will song you a song of our soul, O Man,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will leaf you a brown leaf of <span style="font-size: large;">Earth<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since dawn began the gray drops ran</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">And still I my horizons sca<span style="font-size: large;">n</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">For him who<span style="font-size: large;"> to my old world's dearth,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Through One-Who-Is caused my <span style="font-size: large;">rebirth."</span> </span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </i></div>
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