tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78355113466841263522024-03-14T11:01:40.752-07:00Meanderings of the MuseShanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-21892048952161773002012-05-29T01:57:00.000-07:002012-05-29T01:57:58.900-07:00The Four Winds<br />
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OF ZEUS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">The setting of the Pleiades in November marked
the beginning of the stormy season. Zeus, Olympian storm god, was often
depicted within his chariot drawn by the four enigmatic and much stylised horse-shaped
winds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">ASTRAEUS </span></b><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Titanic father of
the stars, the planets and the four seasonal winds by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">EOS</b> Winged goddess of the Dawn who heralds the rising of the sun
with her rosy beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">AEOLUS</span></b><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ruler of the winds
appointed by Zeus guards the storm winds <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AnemoiThuellai.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Anemoi Thuellai</span></a> and <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Harpyiai.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Aellai</span></a></i> .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Securely locked
away inside the floating island of Aeolia, released only at the bequest of the
gods to wreak havoc upon the seas and on land. Aeolus is ‘King’ of the Castle there.
Since the Winds were often conceived of as horse-shaped spirits, Aiolos was
titled Hippotades, "the reiner of horses," from the Greek <i>hippos</i>
(horse) and <i>tadên</i> (reined in tightly). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">AETHER</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aither </i>The primeval god of the shining
light of the blue sky. He was conceived of as the substance of light, a layer
of bright mist which lay between the dome of heaven and the lower air which surrounded
the earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">ANEMOI</span></b><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anemoi/aetes</i> : The gods of the four
directional winds and the heralds of the four seasons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the North Wind, the Thrall of Winter.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Spring.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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the South Wind, Flame of Summer. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Closely aligned with the Seasons,
Boreas gripped the land with the icy breath of Winter; Zephyros ushered in
fresh spring breezes and Notos showered the fecund earth with Summer
rain-storms.<b> *</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Eurus</span>, the
East Wind had not originally been associated with any of the three primary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_calendar" title="Attic calendar"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Greek S</span><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">easons</span></a> and is therefore not mentioned in
Hesiod's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony" title="Theogony"><i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Theogony</span></i></a> or in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus#Orphic_poems_and_rites" title="Orpheus"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Orphic Hymns</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Represented through mythologized forms, the Wind-Gods
often appeared as either winged, man-shaped gods or horse-like divinities that
grazed the shores of the <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Kosmos/Okeanos.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">river Okeanos</span></a>. The latter were stabled in
the caverns of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Aiolos.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Aiolos Hippotades</span></a></i>, the Horse-Reiner and Ruler of the Winds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Homer and Hesiod distinguish the freedoms of
the Seasonal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anemo</i>i from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AnemoiThuellai.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Anemoi Thuellai</span></a></i> of Storms and Hurricane incarcerated
within the caverns of Aiolos or the <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Kosmos/Tartaros.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">pit of Tartaros</span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>guarded
vigilantly by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Hekatonkheires.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hekatonkheires</span></a>.</i> Later authors, however, blurred this vital
distinction between them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">According to Hesiod (<i>Theog.</i> 378,
&c., 869, &c.) Notus, Boreas, Argestes, and Zephyrus as the sons of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Astraeus</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eos</i> were beneficial winds; the wild and destructive winds such as
Typhon borne of Typhoeus were clearly not. Philosophical writers frequently endeavoured
to define the winds more accurately according to their place upon the Compass. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">“When in combat
with the mighty Zeus, He [Typhoeus] suffered the fourfold compulsion of the
four Winds. For if he turned flickering eyes to the sunrise [the East], he
received the fiery battle of neighbouring Euros. If he gazed towards the stormy
clime of the Arkadian Bear [the North], he was beaten by the chilly frost of
wintry whirlwinds. If he shunned the cold blast of snow-beaten Boreas, he was
shaken by the volleys of wet and hot together. If he looked to the sunset [the
West], opposite to the dawn of the grim east, he shivered before Enyo and her
western tempests when he heard the noise of Zephyros cracking his spring-time
lash; and Notos [in the South], that hot wind, round about the southern foot of
Aigokeros [Capricorn] flogged the aerial vaults, leading against Typhon a
glowing blaze with steamy heat."<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">ANEMOI THUELLAI</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">: The Daemones Spirits of whirlwinds, hurricanes and all violent
storm-winds. These pneumatic offspring of the monster Typhoeus were locked away
inside Tartarus or the floating island of Aeolus to be released only at the express
command of the gods. Their female counterparts were the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Harpyiai.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Aellai</span></a>, <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Harpyiai.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Thuellai</span></a> or <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Harpyiai.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Harpyiai</span></a></i>(Harpies). Known as the hounds of Zeus, they were
blamed for the disappearance of people without a trace. Mating with these they
sired swift, immortal horses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">KHAOS<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primeval goddess of the atmosphere, the
region between heaven and earth. She was the air which men breathed. Below Her
lay the Earth, and above Her shone the mists of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Protogenos Aether</i>. Khaos Mothered the Darkness, Night and of all Birds.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Greek mythology</span></a>, a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Harpy</span> (snatcher) was any one of the mainly winged death-spirits best
known for constantly stealing all food from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas" title="Phineas"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Phineas</span></a>. The literal meaning of the word is
rooted in the ancient Greek word <i>harpazein</i>: "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to snatch</i>".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Conversely, the Harpy could also
bring life. A Harpy mothered the horses of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Achilles</span></a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad"><i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Iliad</span></i></a> xvi. 150) as sired by the West
Wind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyros" title="Zephyros"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Zephyros</span></a>. In this context Jane Harrison
adduced the notion in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Virgil</span></a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgics" title="Georgics"><i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Georgics</span></i></a> that mares became ‘gravid’ by
the Wind alone. This suggests immediately the violent sexuality attributed to
these phenomenon (iii.274).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hesiod</span></a>’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony" title="Theogony"><i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Theogony</span></i></a>, they are named as two ‘lovely-haired’
creatures of great beauty. This revision is built upon an earlier perception of
them as terrifying monsters, which parallels the cognate transformation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren" title="Siren"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Siren</span></a>. Yet another sensual female Zoomorph much maligned albeit
one later redeemed as the mournful death angel. A vase in the Berlin Museum
depicts a Harpy whose head is recognizably that of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon" title="Gorgon"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gorgon</span></a>, complete with rolling eyes, protruding
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">In this form they were the agents
of punishment who abducted and tortured those hapless souls on their way to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus" title="Tartarus"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tartarus</span></a>. They were vicious, cruel and
violent. Their domain was the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strophades" title="Strophades"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Strophades</span></a></i> where they personified the
destructive nature of tempestuous storm. Traditionally, the Harpies formed a
triad of three sisters: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aello" title="Aello"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Aello</span></a></i> (storm swift), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celaeno" title="Celaeno"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Celaeno</span></a></i> (the dark), also known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podarge" title="Podarge"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Podarge</span></a></i> (fleet-foot) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocypete" title="Ocypete"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ocypete</span></a></i> (the swift wing).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="North_wind_.28Boreas.29"></a><a href="" name="Aquilo"></a><a href="" name="West_wind_.28Zephyrus.29"></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Boreas</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"> : Greek god of
the cold <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North" title="North"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">North</span></a> Wind and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>harbinger of winter. His name meant
"North Wind" or "Devouring One". Boreas is depicted as being
very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a
winged old man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch" title="Conch"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">conch</span></a> shell and wearing a billowing cloak.<sup> </sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Pausanias</span></a>
wrote that Boreas had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake" title="Snake"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">snakes</span></a> instead of feet, though in art he
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Boreas, closely associated with
horses was said to have fathered twelve ethereal colts after taking the form of
a stallion upon the mares of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erichthonius" title="Erichthonius"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Erichthonius</span></a>,
king of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy" title="Troy"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Troy</span></a>. The Greeks believed that his home was
in Thrace. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Herodotus</span></a> and Pliny both describe a
northern land known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea" title="Hyperborea"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hyperborea</span></a>
(Beyond the North Wind), where people enjoyed longevity and peace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinkware" title="Drinkware"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">cup</span></a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarquinia" title="Tarquinia"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tarquinia</span></a>, ca <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/480_BC" title="480 BC"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">480 BC</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Museum_of_Fine_Arts" title="Boston Museum of Fine Arts"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Boston
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Zephyrus</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">/ <b>Zephyr</b> Latin Favonius, the West Wind.
The gentlest of the winds, Zephyrus is known as the fructifying wind, the
messenger of spring. It was thought that Zephyrus lived in a cave in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Thrace</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Zephyrus was the amorous husband
to several wives. He was said to be the husband of his sister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(mythology)" title="Iris (mythology)"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Iris</span></a>, the goddess of the rainbow. He
abducted another of his sisters, the goddess Chloris, and gave her the domain
of flowers. With Chloris, he fathered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpos" title="Karpos"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Carpus</span></a> (fruit). He is said to have vied for
Chloris's love with his brother <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreas" title="Boreas"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Boreas</span></a>, eventually
winning her devotion. Additionally, with yet another sister and lover, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy" title="Harpy"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Harpy</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podarge" title="Podarge"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Podarge</span></a> (also known as
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celaeno" title="Celaeno"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Celaeno</span></a>), Zephyrus was said to be the
father of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balius_and_Xanthus" title="Balius and Xanthus"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Balius and Xanthus</span></a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Achilles</span></a>' horses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">One of the surviving myths in
which Zephyrus features most prominently is that of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_(mythology)" title="Hyacinth (mythology)"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hyacinth</span></a>.
Hyacinth was a very handsome and athletic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Spartan</span></a> prince. Zephyrus fell in love with him
and courted him, as did <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Apollo</span></a>. The two competed
for the boy's love who chose Apollo, driving Zephyrus mad with jealousy. Later,
catching Apollo and Hyacinth throwing a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discus" title="Discus"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">discus</span></a>, Zephyrus blew a gust of wind at them,
striking the boy in the head with the falling discus. When Hyacinth died,
Apollo created the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_(plant)" title="Hyacinth (plant)"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">hyacinth flower</span></a>
from his blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">In the story of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche" title="Cupid and Psyche"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Cupid and Psyche</span></a>, Zephyrus served <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid" title="Cupid"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Cupid</span></a> by transporting Psyche to his cave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="Favonius"></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Roman deities
equivalent to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anemoi</i> were known
as the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Venti</span> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">winds</span>). Despite different names they were
otherwise very similar to their Greek counterparts, borrowing their attributes
and being frequently conflated with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roman</span></a> equivalent of Boreas was <b>Aquilo</b>,
or <b>Aquilon</b>. An alternative and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>less
common name used for the northern wind was <b>Septentrio</b>. Derived from <i>septem
triones</i> (seven oxen) it refers to the seven prominent stars in the northern
constellation <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major" title="Ursa Major"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ursa Major</span></a>.
Septentrio is also the source of the obscure word <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septentrional" title="Septentrional"><i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">septentrional</span></i></a>, a synonym for <i>boreal</i>
meaning northern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="South_wind_.28Notus.29"></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Notus</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"> the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South" title="South"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">south</span></a> wind associated with the desiccating hot wind of the
rise of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius" title="Sirius"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sirius</span></a> after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer" title="Midsummer"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">midsummer</span></a>, and was thought to bring the
storms of late summer and autumn, and was feared as a destroyer of crops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="Auster"></a><span class="mw-headline"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Auster</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Notus' equivalent in Roman
mythology was <b>Auster</b>, the embodiment of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirocco" title="Sirocco"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sirocco</span></a> wind, who brought heavy cloud
cover and fog or humidity. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auster" title="Auster"><i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Auster</span></i></a>
is also the name of a defunct British aircraft manufacturer from the
1940s–1950s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="East_wind_.28Eurus.29"></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Eurus</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"> represents the
unlucky <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East" title="East"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">east</span></a> wind. He was thought to bring warmth
and rain, and his symbol was an inverted vase, spilling water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="Vulturnus"></a><span class="mw-headline"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Vulturnus</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">His Roman counterpart was <b>Vulturnus</b>,
not to be confused with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volturnus" title="Volturnus"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Volturnus</span></a>,
a tribal river-god who later became a Roman deity of the River <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber" title="Tiber"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tiber</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who held dominion over plants and flowers. The name <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favonius" title="Favonius"><i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Favonius</span></i></a>, which meant
"favorable", was also a common <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roman</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_naming_convention" title="Roman naming convention"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">name</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="Minor_winds"></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Tower
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Additionally, four lesser <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anemoi</i> were sometimes referenced, representing the northeast,
southeast, northwest, and southwest winds totalling eight winds in all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Eight winds: <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AnemosZephyros.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Zephyros</span></a>, <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AnemosBoreas.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Boreas</span></a>, <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AnemosNotos.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Notos</span></a>, <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AnemosEuros.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Euros</span></a>, Kaikias, Apeliotes, Skiron and Lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Four lesser wind deities appear
in a few ancient sources, such as at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds" title="Tower of the Winds"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tower of the Winds</span></a>
in Athens. Originally, as attested in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hesiod</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer" title="Homer"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Homer</span></a>, these four minor Anemoi were the <b>Anemoi Thuellai</b>
(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Άνεμοι</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">θύελλαι</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">; Greek: "Tempest-Winds"), wicked and
violent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(mythology)" title="Daemon (mythology)"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">daemons</span></a>
(spirits) created by the monster <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhon" title="Typhon"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Typhon</span></a>, and male
counterparts to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy" title="Harpy"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">harpies</span></a>, who were also called <i>thuellai</i>.
These were the winds held in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolus" title="Aeolus"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Aeolus</span></a>'s stables; the
other four, "heavenly" Anemoi were not kept locked up. However, later
writers confused and conflated the two groups of Anemoi, and the distinction
was largely forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Kaikias</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"> was the Greek deity of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_direction" title="Ordinal direction"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">northeast</span></a> wind. He is shown as a bearded
man with a shield full of hail-stones, and his name derives from the Ancient
Greek <i>kakía</i> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">κακία</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">), "badness" or "evil".
Kakia is also the name of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(mythology)" title="Daemon (mythology)"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">spirit</span></a>
of vice, the sister of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arete_(goddess)" title="Arete (goddess)"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Arete</span></a>
("virtue"). The Roman deity equivalent to Kaikias was <b>Caecius</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Apeliotes</span></b><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">, sometimes known to the Romans as <b>Apeliotus</b>, was
the Greek deity of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_directions" title="Ordinal directions"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">southeast</span></a>
wind. As this wind was thought to cause a refreshing rain particularly
beneficial to farmers, he is often depicted wearing gumboots and carrying
fruit, draped in a light cloth concealing some flowers or grain. He is
cleanshaven, with curly hair and a friendly expression. Because Apeliotes was a
minor god, he was often synthesized with Eurus, the east wind. <b>Subsolanus</b>,
Apeliotes' Roman counterpart, was also sometimes considered the east wind, in
Vulturnus' place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Skiron</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">, or <b>Skeiron</b>, was the Greek god of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_directions" title="Ordinal directions"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">northwest</span></a>
wind. His name is related to <i>Skirophorion</i>, the last of the three months
of spring in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_calendar" title="Attic calendar"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Attic festival
calendar</span></a>. He is depicted as a bearded man tilting a cauldron,
representing the onset of winter. His Roman counterpart is <b>Caurus</b>, or <b>Corus</b>.
Corus was also one of the oldest Roman wind-deities, and numbered among the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_indigetes" title="Di indigetes"><i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">di indigetes</span></i></a> ("indigenous
gods"), a group of abstract and largely minor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numina" title="Numina"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">numinous</span></a> entities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wind, often depicted holding the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern" title="Stern"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">stern</span></a> of a ship. His
Roman equivalent was <b>Afer ventus</b> ("African wind"), or <b>Africus</b>,
due to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Roman_province)" title="Africa (Roman province)"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Africa</span></a>
being to the southwest of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Italy</span></a>. This name is
thought to be derived from the name of a fanciful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">North African</span></a> tribe, the <i>Afri</i>.
However, Africus was, like Corus, one of the few native Roman deities, or <i>di
indigetes</i>, to endure in later Roman mythology. The di indigetes ("indigenous
gods") were a group of Roman gods, goddesses and spirits not adopted from
other mythologies, as opposed to the di novensides ("newcomer gods")
in Georg Wissowa's terminology. This goes some way toward ruling out any tribal
name as the basis for the Roman wind god Africus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Eight Wind-Gods were depicted
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AnemosBoreas.html"><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">BOREAS</span></a> The god of the North-Wind is depicted
with shaggy hair and beard, with a billowing cloak and a conch shell in his
hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the North-East Wind is represented as a bearded man with a shield full of
hail-stones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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god of the East Wind appears as a clean-shaven man, holding a cloak full of
fruit and grain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sculpted as a bearded man holding a heavy cloak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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represented holding the stern of a ship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a beardless youth scattering flowers from his mantle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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North-West is a bearded man tilting a cauldron, signifying the onset of
winter. The cloud collecting and rain-fraught [Corus - Roman] (north-west
gale).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Orphic Hymn 80 to Boreas (trans.
Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :</span></i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"><br />
"To Boreas (North-Wind), Fumigation from Frankincense. Boreas, whose
wintry blasts, terrific, tear the bosom of the deep surrounding air; cold icy
power, approach, and favouring blow, and Thrake awhile desert, exposed to snow:
the air’s all-misty darkening state dissolve, with pregnant clouds whose frames
in showers resolve. Serenely temper all within the sky, and wipe from moisture
aither’s splendid eye."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Orphic Hymn 81 to Zephyrus :</span></i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"><br />
"To Zephyros (West-Wind), Fumigation from Frankincense. Sea-born, aerial,
blowing from the west, sweet Breezes (Aurai), who give to wearied labour rest.
Vernal and grassy, and of murmuring sound, to ships delightful through the sea
profound; for these, impelled by you with gentle force, pursue with prosperous
fate their destined course. With blameless gales regard my suppliant prayer,
Zephyros unseen, light-winged, and formed from air."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">Orphic Hymn 82 to Notus :</span></i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;"><br />
"To Notos (South-Wind), Fumigation from Frankincense. Wide-coursing gales,
whose lightly leaping feet with rapid wings the air’s wet bosom beat, approach,
benevolent, swift-whirling powers, with humid clouds the principles of showers;
for showery clouds are portioned to your care, to send on earth from
all-surrounding air. Hear, blessed power, these holy rites attend, and fruitful
rains on earth all-parent send."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">"In Titane there is also a sanctuary of
Athena, into which they bring up the image of Koronis [mother of Asklepios] . .
. The sanctuary is built upon a hill, at the bottom of which is an Altar of the
Anemoi (Winds), and on it the priest sacrifices to the Anemoi (Winds) one night
in every year. He also performs other secret rites [of Hekate] at four pits,
taming the fierceness of the blasts [of the winds], and he is said to chant as
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"Bird-bodied, girl-faced things they [the Harpyiai] are; abominable their
droppings, their hands are talons, their faces haggard with hunger
insatiable."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">NYX <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The primeval goddess of night. In the evening
Nyx drew her curtain of dark mists across the sky, cloaking the light of her
son Aether, the shining blue sky. In the morn, her daughter <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hemera</i> (the goddess Day) lifted the dark
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a6a6a6; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">OCEANIDES <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Okeanides)The daughters of the
earth-encircling river Oceanus. Some of these were nymphs of clouds (Nephelae)
and moistening breezes (Aurae).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="Chapter_VI"></a><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">Chapter
VI</span><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">Communion Through Meditation</span><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">The Blessed Lord
said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">1. It is the man
who performs his duties without dependence on the fruits that deserves to be
called a Sannyasin (renouncer) and a Yogin, not the one who keeps no fire or
avoids works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">2. O son of Pandu!
What is called Sannyasa or renunciation know that to be identical with Yoga or
disciplines of selfless action. For, whoever has not abandoned subtle
hankerings and self-centred objectives, can never become a Yogi, or a
practitioner of spiritual communion through works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">3. For one who
desires to ascend the path leading to the heights of spiritual communion
(Yoga), detached work is the means. For one who has ascended it, quiescence is
verily the means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">4. When one ceases
to be attached to sense objects and to one's actions, then that one, who has
thus abandoned all subtle hankerings and self-centred objectives, is said to
have ascended the heights of spiritual communion (Yoga).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">5. One should
uplift one's lower self by the higher self. One should not depress or downgrade
one's self. For the self verily is both the friend and the foe of the self.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">6. To him who has
subdued the lower self by the higher self, the self acts like a friend. But to
him who has lost his higher self by the dominance of the lower one. the self
functions as the enemy, always hostile to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">7. In one who has
conquered his mind, the Self remains steady and unperturbed in the experience
of the pairs of opposites like heat and cold, pleasure and pain, honour and
dishonour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">8. A Yogin whose
spirit has attained contentment through knowledge and experience, who is
unperturbed, who has subdued his senses, to whom a lump of earth and a bar of
gold are alike - such a Yogi is said to have attained steadfastness in
spiritual communion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">9. Specially
noteworthy in excellence is he who is even-minded in his outlook on friend and
foe, on comrade and stranger, on the neutral, on the ally, on the good, and
even on the evil ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">10. Let a Yogin
constantly practise spiritual communion, residing alone in a solitary spot,
desireless, possessionless, and disciplined in body and mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUBt-3cmpkp9EahnjPeKr2ZRA7TKoScjKZzu-VcwGqdOzwH1i75PCcb1o_ZxOqyQriOJ7k8Sj8aq-Y-5T1dX9Nv9JJ_1B6xAHH_tOg6gHTem4hMlBTQrPLqX19BdnvS-IHQob32MAULBN/s1600/Krishna-Gita1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUBt-3cmpkp9EahnjPeKr2ZRA7TKoScjKZzu-VcwGqdOzwH1i75PCcb1o_ZxOqyQriOJ7k8Sj8aq-Y-5T1dX9Nv9JJ_1B6xAHH_tOg6gHTem4hMlBTQrPLqX19BdnvS-IHQob32MAULBN/s400/Krishna-Gita1.jpg" width="280" /></a><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">11-12. At a clean
spot, which is neither too high nor too low, a seat should be made with Kusha
grass, spread over with a skin and a cloth. Firmly seated on it, the Yogi
should practise spiritual communion, with mind concentrated and with the
working of the imaginative faculty and the senses under control, for
self-purification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">13-14. Holding the
body, head and neck erect, motionless and firm, gazing at the tip of the nose
and not round about, fearless, serene, restrained in mind, and established in
the vow of continence, he should sit in spiritual communion with Me, looking
upon Me as his highest and most precious end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">15. With the mind
restrained from going outward to objects and always uniting with the Supreme in
spiritual communion, the Yogi attains to Peace, which is the summit of bliss
and enduring establishment in My state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">16. O Arjuna!
Success in Yoga is not for those who eat too much, nor for those who eat too
little. It is not also for those given to too much sleeping, nor to those who
keep vigil too long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">17. For one who is
temperate in food and recreation, who is detached and self-restrained in work,
who is regulated in sleep and in vigil - Yoga brings about the cessation of the
travail of Samsara.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">18. When the
disciplined mind is able to remain established in the Atman alone, when it is
free from longing for all objects of desire - then is it spoken of as having
attained to spiritual communion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">19. The flame of a
lamp sheltered from wind does not flicker. This is the comparison used to
describe a Yogi's mind that is well under control and united with the Atman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">20. That state in
which the Chitta (mind stuff), with its movements restrained by the practice of
Yoga, finds rest; in which is experienced the joy of the Spirit born of the
higher mind intuiting the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">21. In which he
(the Yogin) experiences that endless bliss which is beyond the ken of the
senses but is intuited by the purified intellect; wherein established, one does
not waver from the Truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">22. Having obtained
which no other gain is considered as greater; remaining in which one is not
shaken even by the heaviest of afflictions,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">23. Know that
severence of connection with pain as what is designated as Yoga. It has to be
practised tirelessly with determination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">24-25. Abandoning
imagination - born longings in their entirety, restraining all the senses with
the mind on every side, and setting that mind firmly on the Self under the
direction of a steadfast intellect, one should practise tranquillity little by
little, and abstain from every kind of thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">26. From whatsoever
reason this wavering and fickle mind wanders away, it should be curbed and
brought to abide in the Self alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">27. Supreme Bliss
wells up in a Yogi, who is tranquil in mind, whose passions are subdued, who is
free from impurities and who is in the Brahmic state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">28. Thus, ever
engaged in making the mind steadfast in spiritual communion and having all the
impurities of the mind effaced thereby, the Yogin easily experiences the
infinite Bliss of contact with Brahman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">29. The man of
spiritual insight, established in same-sightedness, sees the Self as residing
in all beings and all beings as resting in the Self.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">30. He who sees Me
in all beings, and all beings in Me - to him I am never lost, nor he to Me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">31. Established in
the unity of all existence, a Yogin who serves Me present in all beings, verily
abides in Me, whatever be his mode of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcq1DLG3LRGOhQ-ufTUiLtvCBWUVVMhdN8MwsAR9L7StmzBSMCG3tdoPbD4JqxgyazXf5s_X-WpIyNeLsQWJg5e3r-DHZVtvo_PB6galEqoC46rWC0TcMjdZikG2gIvVV9VO5QIec7zNIX/s1600/ekam-sat.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcq1DLG3LRGOhQ-ufTUiLtvCBWUVVMhdN8MwsAR9L7StmzBSMCG3tdoPbD4JqxgyazXf5s_X-WpIyNeLsQWJg5e3r-DHZVtvo_PB6galEqoC46rWC0TcMjdZikG2gIvVV9VO5QIec7zNIX/s320/ekam-sat.gif" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">32. O Arjuna! In My
view that Yogi is the best who, out of a sense of identity with others on
account of the perception of the same Atman in all, feels their joy and
suffering as his own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">Arjuna said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">33. O Slayer of
Madhu! Owing to the fickleness of the mind, I find no way of firm establishment
in spiritual communion through equanimity as instructed by you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">34. O Krishna!
Verily, the mind is fickle, turbulent, powerful and unyielding. To control it,
1 think, is as difficult as controlling the wind itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">The Blessed Lord said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">35. O mighty armed
one! Undoubtedly the mind is fickle and difficult to be checked. Yet, O son of
Kunti, it can be brought under control by dispassion and spiritual practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">36. My view is that
Yoga is difficult of attainment by men of uncontrolled mind. But for those who
have their minds under control, it is possible to attain, if they strive with
the proper means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">Arjuna said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">37. What, O
Krishna, is the fate of a man who. though endowed with a firm faith, is not
steadfast in his practices owing to distractions, and therefore fails to reach
spiritual perfection?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">38. O mighty-armed
Lord! Bewildered in the path of Brahman, supportless, does he not lose both
this world and the next? Does he not perish like a rain-cloud rent asunder?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">39. O Krishna! My
doubt in this respect has yet to be cleared completely. Indeed! I find none
better than Thee to be that doubt dispeller.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">The Blessed Lord
said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">40. O son of
Pritha! He does not meet with downfall either here in this world or in the
hereafter. Know for certain, O dear one, that one who treads the path of virtue
never goes the way of evil ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Leelawadee","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128; text-shadow: auto;">41. The fallen Yogi
goes (after death) to the spheres of the righteous, and after having lived
there for unnumbered years, is reborn in this world in a pure and prosperous
family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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re-born in a family of men full of wisdom and spirituality. Re-birth under such
conditions is passing hard to get in this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the clan of Kurus! he will regain the spiritual discernment of his previous
birth, and then he will strive harder than ever for perfection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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helpless, he will be driven towards the path of Yoga by the force of his
previous striving. For even a beginner in the path of Yoga goes above the stage
requiring the aid of Vedic ritualism (not to speak then of one who has made
some progress in Yoga).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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striving diligently, he is cleansed of all his sins and gains spiritual
perfection after passing through several embodiments. Finally he reaches the
highest state (which consists in release from the bondage of the body).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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practising meditation) is superior to a man of austerity; he is superior to a
scholar; he is superior to a ritualist too. Therefore, O Arjuna, be you a Yogi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yogins, he is the most attuned in spiritual communion, who worships Me with
abiding faith, and with his innermost self fused with Me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Floralia</i>): an arcane festival involving
the Rite of Baptism, a purification often performed as part of or prelude to the
Eleusinian Mysteries. In the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Limnae’</i>
(temple lakes) the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Myste</i>’
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was celebrated above all others as that consecrated to Love, which seemed to
pervade all nature, and to invite mankind to partake in the general
enjoyment. Hence, among nearly all peoples, its approach was celebrated with
festivities, in which, under various forms, worship was paid to Nature's
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Floralia, a festival we have already described as remarkable for
licentiousness; and there cannot be a doubt that our Teutonic forefathers had
also their festival of the season long before they became acquainted with the
Romans. Yet much of the mediæval celebration of May-day, especially in the
South, appears to have been derived from the Floralia of the latter people.
As in the Floralia, the arrival of the festival was announced</span><span style="color: #7030a0;">”</span><span style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #7030a0; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #7030a0; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Fair Flora I
fear I have no buds to give you,<br />
No amorous hare, no spray of blossoms.<br />
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Only my hard and fissured heart,<br />
beating dust, and dry of life...<br />
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I warm it in the sun as best I can, <br />
but without green I fear it falters still.<br />
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With water from cool springs of crystal blue,<br />
it drinks, but does not seem to find its fill.<br />
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I ask but one small boon of you, sweet mistress of the sacred urge to open:<br />
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The roses in the market, pass by them still they're there with you! Though
you have moved beyond the flower-seller's stall, you know they're there -
their tender rosey souls shout out beyond their earthly, flowering
confines.<br />
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So pass by me this way invisible- <br />
and linger for a moment at my heart's side. <br />
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For your wake of tender shoots and tendrils,<br />
Overflow of pollen with sweet bee attendants<br />
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Might fill the crags and cracks of this my stony heart,<br />
That seeds of blooms find purchase once again<br />
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And get them quickly to their holy work<br />
That I might be renewed and opened,<br />
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With heart-flower faces smiling at the sun, <br />
That I may dance along with you and laugh again<br />
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Along with all the floral folly that is spring<br />
In her sundry, heady blooming.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serica Antonius</i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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the Floralia, was celebrated particularly by the ‘ladies of the night’ across
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expressing quite explicitly the simulacra of human sexual organs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Female celebrants often paraded naked until authorities
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<br /></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-24633682254257396282012-04-05T07:57:00.000-07:002012-04-05T07:57:24.642-07:00THE TRAUMA GODDESS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIaMvwPLRxKpl6zsbmnN5XEEeVXzijlvfmug_OFVcTgPh_D-vPwayInAcBSzVb2suYFdg8OoX_8eoC5RBihJFQw-Iz0Pqm1_9AhWe1qoLd2HtNP5Bf073bOilvIcBzJgrunFsVs2oBT4D/s1600/400px-Vajrayogini_from_Thangka.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIaMvwPLRxKpl6zsbmnN5XEEeVXzijlvfmug_OFVcTgPh_D-vPwayInAcBSzVb2suYFdg8OoX_8eoC5RBihJFQw-Iz0Pqm1_9AhWe1qoLd2HtNP5Bf073bOilvIcBzJgrunFsVs2oBT4D/s640/400px-Vajrayogini_from_Thangka.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><div align="center" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; text-align: center;"><br />
I reshape family karma.<o:p></o:p></div></span><div align="center" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; text-align: center;"></div></i><div align="center" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I am the diamond maiden, the player of games<br />
The yogini is one of my forms<br />
Showing that I am beyond earthly attachment<br />
I am the shining revelation to the ascetic<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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I am the harlot in black net and leather,<br />
Who gives enjoyable punishment,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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And a spark of me is in each bead, for I dwell in karma.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I am the Trauma Goddess, the Lady of Pain<br />
In return for devotion I pull thorns from the heart<br />
In return for obedience<br />
I untie the knots in the belly and the head <br />
I hold the vajra, which gives and receives<br />
I reshape family karma<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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Where anger and hatred block the path of the soul<br />
I evaluate the benefits of revenge<br />
And give better suggestions for spiritual growth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I am not suited to polite society<br />
To social striving, upward mobility, and making good impressions<br />
I am radically honest, sensitive, brilliant, and blunt<br />
I hold up a mirror to the best and worst facets of human life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Lady of Trauma is the mirror of pain<br />
I reflect the disastrous ways that human beings interact<br />
Then the reflections are stretched and distorted<br />
With irony, and humour, and sadness<br />
Loosening their grip on the heart<br />
So that the person who seeks freedom<br />
Can get a taste of being free.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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“Lady of Trauma, Lady that absorbs pain<br />
Ascetic and bhairavi and sannyasini and mistress<br />
Pull me from the disaster that I have made of my life<br />
Save me from the evil machinations of others.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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As they chant my mantra.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Saviour, Lady, Mother Goddess, Bodhisattva,<br />
Love me as I love you<br />
I am desperate and bound<br />
Free me by your grace.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I will give freedom, but not without realisation<br />
Those who have been bound, bind others<br />
Those who have suffered, cause suffering<br />
I let them know how they have been affected<br />
But also how they have affected others.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(229, 184, 183); line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent2; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I do not wear bones because of death<br />
I wear them because they represent what is beneath the surface<br />
The blood that I drink is evil karma of those that I save<br />
And the karma is then halted and does not pass to others.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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Which are destroyed within me.<br />
I am a dancer upon the pain of all mankind<br />
I destroy the dark and corrupt.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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But for those whom I love<br />
Who have taken on my dark grace<br />
I open a path of shining light<br />
With pain and sorrow left behind.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-47555233819486382062012-03-20T04:10:00.000-07:002012-03-20T04:10:57.512-07:00Creation Myths<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AKp4RT1kxb4z2OefYvZOb0cTNB6HLGWElaTwXLdzYQVItRm5UutxXv8LtiUGy2acvfiioi8nG3RzkR9aW8CKIGq9bPXaz147XPSkYBU2Ek38xUflCNfGFsBzoDnlD3pm032nu1xBv08I/s1600/%2525D0%2525BF%2525D0%2525B0%2525D1%252581_%2525D0%252592%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525B5%2525D0%2525B4%2525D0%2525B5%2525D1%252580%2525D0%2525B6%2525D0%2525B8%2525D1%252582%2525D0%2525B5%2525D0%2525BB%2525D1%25258C_%2525D0%2525AF%2525D1%252580%2525D0%2525BE%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525BB%2525D0%2525B0%2525D0%2525B2%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525BA%2525D0%2525B8%2525D0%2525B9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AKp4RT1kxb4z2OefYvZOb0cTNB6HLGWElaTwXLdzYQVItRm5UutxXv8LtiUGy2acvfiioi8nG3RzkR9aW8CKIGq9bPXaz147XPSkYBU2Ek38xUflCNfGFsBzoDnlD3pm032nu1xBv08I/s320/%2525D0%2525BF%2525D0%2525B0%2525D1%252581_%2525D0%252592%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525B5%2525D0%2525B4%2525D0%2525B5%2525D1%252580%2525D0%2525B6%2525D0%2525B8%2525D1%252582%2525D0%2525B5%2525D0%2525BB%2525D1%25258C_%2525D0%2525AF%2525D1%252580%2525D0%2525BE%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525BB%2525D0%2525B0%2525D0%2525B2%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525BA%2525D0%2525B8%2525D0%2525B9.jpg" width="137" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Creation Myths</span><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Selected Musings from the Sacred Cuneiform tablets of Sumer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmE8jWGpqOLLW1tao9Yfuv-fqibjj2qkh_SdkQHVLF2581sleyifv7d1m072hMWUMB4JuwMx_vwkffSEp9P0sCkB1rhQJ_XacZbb3MmV7BzoybDoGLhoYyDSTmXbm2-yGuknBlyrh8qe-/s1600/museum+104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmE8jWGpqOLLW1tao9Yfuv-fqibjj2qkh_SdkQHVLF2581sleyifv7d1m072hMWUMB4JuwMx_vwkffSEp9P0sCkB1rhQJ_XacZbb3MmV7BzoybDoGLhoYyDSTmXbm2-yGuknBlyrh8qe-/s320/museum+104.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Enlil, the king of all the lands, set his mind.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> He thrust his penis into the Great Mountain (HAR.SAG)...<br />
Summer and Winter, the fecundating overflow of the land, he poured into the womb.<br />
Wheresoever Enlil would thrust his penis, he roared like a wild bull.<br />
There, HAR.SAG spent the day, rested happily at night,<br />
Delivered herself of Summer and Winter like rich cream...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijFiThK-PBZsMpMZ4dWqUzr9W2H5a3U56LbE0E1OrZrOT-s0C__xjdjmKw-M6ePOoyEj6_WEAdU5Qp4C5SF5029cDaNVn2L5mPHrVhW6IFSNbp1i8z7u2P9-ueJKYbq-8IIB18EiRxoshH/s1600/museum+109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijFiThK-PBZsMpMZ4dWqUzr9W2H5a3U56LbE0E1OrZrOT-s0C__xjdjmKw-M6ePOoyEj6_WEAdU5Qp4C5SF5029cDaNVn2L5mPHrVhW6IFSNbp1i8z7u2P9-ueJKYbq-8IIB18EiRxoshH/s320/museum+109.jpg" width="214" /></a><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Smooth, big Earth made herself resplendent, beautified her body<br />
joyously.<br />
Wide Earth bedecked her body with precious metal and lapis lazuli,<br />
Adorned herself with diorite, chalcedony, and shiny carnelian.<br />
Heaven arrayed himself in a wig of verdure, stood up in princeship.<br />
Holy Earth, the virgin, beautified herself for Holy Heaven.<br />
Heaven, the lofty god, planted his knees on Wide Earth,<br />
Poured the semen of the heroes Tree and Reed into her womb.<br />
Sweet Earth, the fecund cow, was impregnated with the rich semen of Heaven.<br />
Joyfully did Earth tend to the giving birth of the plants of life,<br />
Luxuriantly she brought forth rich produce, and gave birth to wine and honey.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QQPjMY_veliElpaK1_QkA_cyvMuY3TrKOkDSdtOur0Ct0oRbJDdjs5-QtkAk-myjYhJshg58v3Cw-BcRwX3nGOf3eTrKLAacfRZfR0m6maL30VNBCjHpIOeu5LlbYiFlP64Qh-0weI9o/s1600/museum+075.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QQPjMY_veliElpaK1_QkA_cyvMuY3TrKOkDSdtOur0Ct0oRbJDdjs5-QtkAk-myjYhJshg58v3Cw-BcRwX3nGOf3eTrKLAacfRZfR0m6maL30VNBCjHpIOeu5LlbYiFlP64Qh-0weI9o/s640/museum+075.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">After heaven had been moved away from earth,<br />
After earth had been separated from heaven,<br />
After the name of man had been fixed;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">After An had carried off heaven,<br />
After Enlil had carried off earth,<br />
After Ereshkigal had been carried off into Kur as its prize;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">............................</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6EAdZnIo4wL4W1Uhuq_TK54mEoMFSh-6veC2uMmjwrqUmX7qE99DRY8gkwW-ph81MKaMBkxZqXhrkDGU2JCAb4PslXyHuNjyVaaOQfBq7RYYsFR257c_xEu5OLVpcNGgfo6L40UKXxqRN/s1600/museum+064.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6EAdZnIo4wL4W1Uhuq_TK54mEoMFSh-6veC2uMmjwrqUmX7qE99DRY8gkwW-ph81MKaMBkxZqXhrkDGU2JCAb4PslXyHuNjyVaaOQfBq7RYYsFR257c_xEu5OLVpcNGgfo6L40UKXxqRN/s400/museum+064.jpg" width="266" /></a><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Behold the "bond of heaven and earth," the city, . . .<br />
Behold Nippur, the city, . . .<br />
Behold the "kindly wall," the city, . . .<br />
Behold the Idsalla, its pure river,<br />
Behold the Karkurunna, its quay,<br />
Behold the Karasarra, its quay where the boats stand,<br />
Behold the Pulal, its well of good water,<br />
Behold the Idnunbirdu, its pure canal,<br />
Behold Enlil, its young man,<br />
Behold Ninlil, its young maid,<br />
Behold Nunbarshegunu, its old woman.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In those days the mother, her begetter, gave advice to the maid,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> Nunbarshegunu gave advice to Ninlil:<br />
"At the pure river, O maid, at the pure river wash thyself,<br />
O Ninlil, walk along the bank of the Idnunbirdu,<br />
The bright-eyed, the lord, the bright-eyed,<br />
The 'great mountain,' father Enlil, the bright-eyed, will see thee,<br />
The <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/sum/errata.htm#7"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">shepherd</span></a> . . . who decrees the fates, the bright-eyed, will see thee,<br />
He will . . . . he will kiss thee."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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In the plain, the heart of the wild goat, the sheep, and the donkey he made to rejoice,<br />
The birds of the heaven, in the wide earth he had them set up their nests<br />
The fish of the sea, in the swampland he had them lay their eggs,<br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">In the palm-grove and vineyard he made to abound honey and wine,<br />
The trees, wherever planted, he caused to bear fruit,<br />
The furrows . . .,<br />
Grain and crops he caused to multiply,<br />
Like Ashnan (the grain goddess), the kindly maid, he caused strength to appear.<br />
Emesh brought into existence the trees and the fields, he made wide the stables and sheepfolds,<br />
In the farms he multiplied the produce,<br />
The . . . he caused to cover the earth,<br />
The abundant harvest he caused to be brought into the houses, he caused the granaries to be heaped high.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br />
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As farmer of the gods he has produced everything,<br />
Emesh, my son, how dost thou compare thyself with Eaten, thy brother?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The exalted word of Enlil whose meaning is profound,<br />
The decision taken, is unalterable, who dares transgress it!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Emesh bent the knees before Enten,<br />
Into his house he brought . . ., the wine of the grape and the date,<br />
Emesh presents Enten with gold, silver, and lapis lazuli,<br />
In brotherhood and friendship, happily, they pour out libations,<br />
Together to act wisely and well they determined.<br />
In the struggle between Emesh and Enten,<br />
Enten, the steadfast farmer of the gods, having proved greater than Emesh,<br />
. . . O father Enlil, praise!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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They who have been created in the Dulkug,<br />
Let us cause them to descend from the Dulkug."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">At the pure word of Enki and Enlil,<br />
Lahar and Ashnan descended from the Dulkug.<br />
For Lahar they (Enlil and Enki) set up the sheepfold,<br />
Plants, herbs, and . . . they present to him; <a href="" name="page_54">p</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">For Ashnan they establish a house,<br />
Plow and yoke they present to her.<br />
Lahar standing in his sheepfold,<br />
A shepherd increasing the bounty of the sheepfold is he;<br />
Ashnan standing among the crops,<br />
A maid kindly and bountiful is she.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Abundance of heaven . . . ,<br />
Lahar and Ashnan caused to appear,<br />
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In the land they brought the breath of life,<br />
The decrees of the god they direct,<br />
The contents of the warehouses they multiply,<br />
The storehouses they fill full.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">In the house of the poor, hugging the dust,<br />
Entering they bring abundance;<br />
The pair of them, wherever they stand,<br />
Bring heavy increase into the house;<br />
The place where they stand they sate, the place where they sit they supply,<br />
They made good the heart of An and Enlil.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">After the water of creation had been decreed,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> After the name hegal (abundance), born in heaven,<br />
Like plant and herb had clothed the land,<br />
The lord of the abyss, the king Enki,<br />
Enki, the lord who decrees the fates,<br />
Built his house of silver and lapis lazuli;<br />
Its silver and lapis lazuli, like sparkling light,<br />
The father fashioned fittingly in the abyss.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The </span><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: 'Poor Richard', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(creatures of) bright countenance and wise, coming forth from the abyss,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AKp4RT1kxb4z2OefYvZOb0cTNB6HLGWElaTwXLdzYQVItRm5UutxXv8LtiUGy2acvfiioi8nG3RzkR9aW8CKIGq9bPXaz147XPSkYBU2Ek38xUflCNfGFsBzoDnlD3pm032nu1xBv08I/s1600/%2525D0%2525BF%2525D0%2525B0%2525D1%252581_%2525D0%252592%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525B5%2525D0%2525B4%2525D0%2525B5%2525D1%252580%2525D0%2525B6%2525D0%2525B8%2525D1%252582%2525D0%2525B5%2525D0%2525BB%2525D1%25258C_%2525D0%2525AF%2525D1%252580%2525D0%2525BE%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525BB%2525D0%2525B0%2525D0%2525B2%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525BA%2525D0%2525B8%2525D0%2525B9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AKp4RT1kxb4z2OefYvZOb0cTNB6HLGWElaTwXLdzYQVItRm5UutxXv8LtiUGy2acvfiioi8nG3RzkR9aW8CKIGq9bPXaz147XPSkYBU2Ek38xUflCNfGFsBzoDnlD3pm032nu1xBv08I/s640/%2525D0%2525BF%2525D0%2525B0%2525D1%252581_%2525D0%252592%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525B5%2525D0%2525B4%2525D0%2525B5%2525D1%252580%2525D0%2525B6%2525D0%2525B8%2525D1%252582%2525D0%2525B5%2525D0%2525BB%2525D1%25258C_%2525D0%2525AF%2525D1%252580%2525D0%2525BE%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525BB%2525D0%2525B0%2525D0%2525B2%2525D1%252581%2525D0%2525BA%2525D0%2525B8%2525D0%2525B9.jpg" width="274" /></a><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> Stood all about the lord Nudimmud;<br />
The pure house be built, he adorned it with lapis lazuli,<br />
He ornamented it greatly with gold,<br />
In Eridu he built the house of the water-bank,<br />
Its brickwork, word-uttering, advice-giving,<br />
Its . . . like an ox roaring,<br />
The house of Enki, the oracles uttering.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br />
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To the bright Inanna, my daughter, I shall present . . .<br />
The arts of woodworking, metalworking, writing, toolmaking, leatherworking. . . . building, basketweaving."<br />
Pure Inanna took them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> "O name of My power, O name of my power,<br />
To the pure Inanna, my daughter, I shall present . . ..<br />
Lordship, . . .-ship, godship, the tiara exalted and enduring, the throne of kingship."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Pure Inanna took them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">"O name of my power, O name of my power,<br />
To the pure Inanna, my daughter, I shall present . . . .<br />
The exalted scepter, staffs, the exalted shrine, <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/sum/errata.htm#10"><span style="color: #948a54; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">shepherdship</span></a>, kingship."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Pure Inanna took them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Poor Richard","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br />
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</div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-2859247097358208822012-02-13T01:31:00.000-08:002012-02-13T01:31:11.877-08:00Heaven and Hell<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">William Blake's<br />
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
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Hungry clouds swag on the deep.<br />
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Once meek, and in a perilous path,<br />
The just man kept his course along<br />
The vale of death.<br />
Roses are planted where thorns grow,<br />
And on the barren heath<br />
Sing the honey bees.<br />
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Then the perilous path was planted:<br />
And a river and a spring<br />
On every cliff and tomb:<br />
And on the bleached bones<br />
Red clay brought forth.<br />
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Till the villain left the paths of ease,<br />
To walk in perilous paths, and drive<br />
The just man into barren climes.<br />
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Now the sneaking serpent walks<br />
In mild humility,<br />
And the just man rages in the wilds<br />
Where lions roam.<br />
<br />
Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air;<br />
Hungry clouds swag on the deep.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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o:href="file:///C:\Users\shani\Pictures\jer99_soulsunion.gif"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">PROVERBS OF HELL<br />
</span><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh7.jpg"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">(Plate 7 )</span></a></span><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.<br />
Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.<br />
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.<br />
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.<br />
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.<br />
The cut worm forgives the plow.<br />
Dip him in the river who loves water.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.<br />
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.<br />
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.<br />
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.<br />
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.<br />
Bring out number weight & measure in a year of dearth.<br />
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.<br />
A dead body, revenges not injuries.<br />
The most sublime act is to set another before you.<br />
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.<br />
Folly is the cloke of knavery.<br />
Shame is Prides cloke.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026"
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">PROVERBS OF HELL<br />
</span><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh8.jpg"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">(Plate 8 )</span></a></span><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.<br />
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.<br />
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.<br />
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.<br />
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.<br />
Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.<br />
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.<br />
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.<br />
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.<br />
Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.<br />
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.<br />
The selfish smiling fool, & the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.<br />
What is now proved was once, only imagin'd.<br />
The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbit: watch the roots; the lion, the tyger, the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits.<br />
The cistern contains; the fountain overflows.<br />
One thought, fills immensity.<br />
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.<br />
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.<br />
The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh8.jpg"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">(</span></a><a href="http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh9.jpg"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Plate 9)</span></a></span><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.<br />
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.<br />
He who has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you.<br />
As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.<br />
The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.<br />
Expect poison from the standing water.<br />
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.<br />
Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title!<br />
The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth.<br />
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.<br />
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.<br />
The thankful reciever bears a plentiful harvest.<br />
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.<br />
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defil'd.<br />
When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius, lift up thy head!<br />
As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.<br />
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.<br />
Damn, braces: Bless relaxes.<br />
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.<br />
Prayers plow not! Praises reap not!<br />
Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1028"
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</span><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh10.jpg"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">(Plate 10)</span></a></span><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion.<br />
As the air to a bird of the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.<br />
The crow wish'd every thing was black, the owl, that every thing was white.<br />
Exuberance is Beauty.<br />
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.<br />
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.<br />
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.<br />
Where man is not nature is barren.<br />
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.<br />
Enough! or Too much!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C2D69B; mso-background-themecolor: accent3; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh.html"><span style="color: #943634; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-47416165556472348172012-01-18T11:20:00.000-08:002012-01-18T11:20:16.931-08:00Time: Shifting Seasons<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">In Prose and Verse:</span></span></div><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"The cycle of nature—the progress from seed to fruition to dying-off and then renewal in the spring—was mirrored in the wild fields and the cultivated garden alike, while the fragility of harvest—the possible interruption of the cycle by drought, wind, or other natural calamities— established the pattern of how humans understood the workings of the cosmos. The oldest of surviving sacred stories have their roots in the garden and reflect how humanity sought to understand the changeable patterns of their world and, at the same time, to imagine a world no longer subject to change.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">Peg Streep </span></div></span></span><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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Tibetan saying</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."<br />
Emily Dickinson </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"There is an appointed time for everything. <br />
And there is a time for every event under heaven -<br />
A time to give birth, and a time to die;<br />
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">Ecclesiastes, 3:1-2 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky,<br />
How beautiful it is? <br />
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness<br />
There is a poem, there is a song. <br />
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. <br />
When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with<br />
The music of many leaves,<br />
Which in due season fall and are blown away. <br />
And this is the way of life."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">Krishnamurti</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipysarFZpCD-sJimg0cNj3N1cgPO630-m1WCAttYjsEpP4TDLcFtpHnZQwWACYduib0D_V8dCOwvPVXhMF15QyYZFA73C8DWWhejZ0VvLzpDT2s696iBeupgMhLlnZ6LByITzi8Ih4wr8o/s1600/adoration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" nfa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipysarFZpCD-sJimg0cNj3N1cgPO630-m1WCAttYjsEpP4TDLcFtpHnZQwWACYduib0D_V8dCOwvPVXhMF15QyYZFA73C8DWWhejZ0VvLzpDT2s696iBeupgMhLlnZ6LByITzi8Ih4wr8o/s200/adoration.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"> "Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring<br />
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:<br />
The Bird of Time has but a little way<br />
To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing."</span><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">Omar Khayyám </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"><br />
Erwin Schrodinger</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"> Stanley Horowitz</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and glowing, on sea and continues and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">John Muir</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23Xl7KWeKmt_Jhjb_cCDfpPxuAXllttDmthdEveNhaN3GXxmxI1_ECbAFv5Duwuwp6bnI2PjuEwb6DoWlU7W-4njwGC-nSIkenYjy6TPMrScEFw4DtwY1vNY18YyxMPgTmxWYca8ZQifV/s1600/yule.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" nfa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23Xl7KWeKmt_Jhjb_cCDfpPxuAXllttDmthdEveNhaN3GXxmxI1_ECbAFv5Duwuwp6bnI2PjuEwb6DoWlU7W-4njwGC-nSIkenYjy6TPMrScEFw4DtwY1vNY18YyxMPgTmxWYca8ZQifV/s200/yule.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">John Keats</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">Paracelsus</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"> </span><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"Leaves have their time to fall, <br />
And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, <br />
And stars to set; but all, <br />
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">John Milton </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"> Plutarch </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;"> "Time discovers truth.<br />
Time heals what reason cannot."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d99594; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">Seneca </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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It fails to reflect all the good and beautiful aspects of people and things while it magnifies all the bad and ugly aspects so that they look even worse than they really are. The devil teaches a "devil school," and the devil and his pupils delight in taking the mirror throughout the world to distort everyone and everything. They enjoy how the mirror makes the loveliest landscapes look like "boiled spinach." They then want to carry the mirror into heaven with the idea of making fools of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels" title="Angels"><span style="color: #95b3d7; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">angels</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" title="God"><span style="color: #95b3d7; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">God</span></a>, but the higher they lift it, the more the mirror grins and shakes with delight. It shakes so much that it slips from their grasp and falls back to earth where it shatters into billions of pieces — some no larger than a grain of sand. These splinters are blown around and get into people's hearts and eyes, making their hearts frozen like blocks of ice and their eyes like the troll-mirror itself, only seeing the bad and ugly in people and things.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktooe9LlxorAMXdzTq5Djz7A2umMx1hNIZXwyapcyTTk8YgRVfB7vjZQhMbjfZrNOu3ISvWJD4bXYKKgPVsyjB0L6EDG-LkySTacepyrIKIaDQHr4kd4e65PMkeMxYzxyTTs_7twrBZho/s1600/513.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktooe9LlxorAMXdzTq5Djz7A2umMx1hNIZXwyapcyTTk8YgRVfB7vjZQhMbjfZrNOu3ISvWJD4bXYKKgPVsyjB0L6EDG-LkySTacepyrIKIaDQHr4kd4e65PMkeMxYzxyTTs_7twrBZho/s320/513.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">Years later, a little boy, Kay, and a little girl, Gerda, live next door to each other in the garrets of buildings with adjoining roofs in a large city. One could get from Kay's to Gerda's home just by stepping over the gutters of each building. The two families grow vegetables and roses in window boxes placed on the gutters. Kay and Gerda have a window-box garden to play in, and they become devoted in love to each other as playmates.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlfa8F_OP3GV4kBEbrOWGegc3kmfoEhzIQpENYFKjyGzM24g1m2DW8QWWIRpbwyS1MtU_uVVCpK5Sp6o5WlJtJu821U0UR8yUxRvajmx33jBs35K3GIN9PHarFHiTRqZK3rTDFpIXhdSr/s1600/DSC03118.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlfa8F_OP3GV4kBEbrOWGegc3kmfoEhzIQpENYFKjyGzM24g1m2DW8QWWIRpbwyS1MtU_uVVCpK5Sp6o5WlJtJu821U0UR8yUxRvajmx33jBs35K3GIN9PHarFHiTRqZK3rTDFpIXhdSr/s400/DSC03118.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">Kay's grandmother tells the children about the Snow Queen, who is ruler over the snowflakes that look like bees — that is why they are called "snow bees." As bees have a queen, so do the snow bees, and she is seen where the snowflakes cluster the most. Looking out of his frosted window, Kay, one winter, sees the Snow Queen, who beckons him to come with her. Kay draws back in fear from the window.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">By the following spring, Gerda has learned a song that she sings to Kay: <i>Where the roses deck the flowery vale, there, infant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus"><span style="color: #95b3d7; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">Jesus</span></a> thee we hail!</i> Because roses adorn the window box garden, Gerda is always reminded of her love for Kay by the sight of roses.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">It was on a pleasant summer's day that splinters of the troll-mirror get into Kay's heart and eyes while he and Gerda are looking at a picture book in their window-box garden. Kay's personality changes: he becomes cruel and aggressive. He destroys their window-box garden, he makes fun of his grandmother, and he no longer cares about Gerda, since all of them now appear bad and ugly to him. The only beautiful and perfect things to him now are the tiny snowflakes that he sees through a magnifying glass.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">The following winter he goes out with his sled to the market square and hitches it—as was the custom of those playing in the snowy square—to a curious white sleigh carriage, driven by the Snow Queen, who appears as a woman in a white fur-coat. Outside the city she shows herself to Kay and takes him into her sleigh. She kisses him only twice: once to numb him from the cold, and the second time to cause him to forget about Gerda and his family. She does not kiss him a third time as that would kill him. Kay is then taken to the Snow Queen's palace on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitsbergen" title="Spitsbergen"><span style="color: #95b3d7; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">Spitsbergen</span></a>, near the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole" title="North Pole"><span style="color: #95b3d7; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">North Pole</span></a> where he is contented to live due to the splinters of the troll-mirror in his heart and eyes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MS8uGvhahFI/TwTQArRQy2I/AAAAAAAAAR0/SLhh80QDok0/s1600/1424332123_01fac468b3_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="295" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MS8uGvhahFI/TwTQArRQy2I/AAAAAAAAAR0/SLhh80QDok0/s400/1424332123_01fac468b3_o.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">The people of the city get the idea that Kay has been </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">drowned in the river nearby, but Gerda, who is heartbroken at Kay's disappearance, goes out to look for him. She questions everyone and everything about Kay's whereabouts. Gerda offers her new red shoes to the river in exchange for Kay; by not taking the gift at first, the river seems to let her know that Kay is not drowned. Gerda next visits an old sorceress, who wants Gerda to stay with her forever. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">She causes Gerda to forget all about her friend and, knowing that the sight of roses will remind Gerda of Kay, the sorceress causes all the roses in her garden to sink beneath the earth. At the home of the old sorceress, a rosebush raised from below the ground by Gerda's warm tears tells her that Kay is not among the dead, all of whom it could see while it was under the earth. Gerda flees from the old woman's beautiful garden of eternal summer and meets a crow, who tells her that Kay was in the princess's palace. She subsequently goes to the palace and meets the princess and her prince, who appears very similar to Kay. Gerda tells them her story and they help by providing warm clothes and a beautiful coach. While traveling in the coach Gerda is captured by robbers and brought to their castle, where she is befriended by a little robber girl, whose pet doves tell her that they had seen Kay when he was carried away by the Snow Queen in the direction of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland,_Finland" title="Lapland, Finland"><span style="color: #95b3d7; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">Lapland</span></a>. The captive reindeer, Bae, tells her that he knows how to get to Lapland since it is his home.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvx5PMFx1ZXEEgo2TKwkrF88xok6EjQz81sMjGlYGOKQ1lDXsyN5kneeQu7HlmRfUZ4vgevdSsftUr2UtQrOWRDnGN_zx00-Wz21h10XAEslUc9511xGqLnaEJAHjUl1MYb5U3uLT8gw_a/s1600/217.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="427" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvx5PMFx1ZXEEgo2TKwkrF88xok6EjQz81sMjGlYGOKQ1lDXsyN5kneeQu7HlmRfUZ4vgevdSsftUr2UtQrOWRDnGN_zx00-Wz21h10XAEslUc9511xGqLnaEJAHjUl1MYb5U3uLT8gw_a/s640/217.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">The robber girl, then, frees Gerda and the reindeer to travel north to the Snow Queen's palace. They make two stops: first at the Lapp woman's home and then at the Finn woman's home. The Finn woman tells the reindeer that the secret of Gerda's unique power to save Kay is in her sweet and innocent child's heart:</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #95b3d7; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">When Gerda gets to the Snow Queen's palace, she is first halted by the snowflakes which guard it. The only thing that overcomes them is Gerda's praying the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer" title="Lord's Prayer"><span style="color: #95b3d7; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 153;">Lord's Prayer</span></a>, which causes her breath to take the shape of angels, who resist the snowflakes and allow Gerda to enter the palace. Gerda finds Kay alone and almost immobile on the frozen lake, which the Snow Queen calls the "Mirror of Reason" on which her throne sits. Gerda finds Kay engaged in the task that the Snow Queen gave him: he must use pieces of ice as components of a Chinese puzzle to form characters and words. If he is able to form the word "eternity" (Danish: <i>Evigheden</i>) the Snow Queen will release him from her power and give him a pair of skates. Gerda finds him, runs up to him, and weeps warm tears on him, which melt his heart, burning away the troll-mirror splinter in it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5izlQCWokXT0KUsTgaT_uxo107hFoq9DDZztmXDXO4kJQromUiqw2xMbO_KgAqA4-rC0YEZ7rXw2WNbavz_NMxaOhxtQBtbNsXPPqZ6XLgeCYZevwtma6cXBcdr67LL3sWq95BGHGJGc/s1600/DSC02686%25281%2529window.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5izlQCWokXT0KUsTgaT_uxo107hFoq9DDZztmXDXO4kJQromUiqw2xMbO_KgAqA4-rC0YEZ7rXw2WNbavz_NMxaOhxtQBtbNsXPPqZ6XLgeCYZevwtma6cXBcdr67LL3sWq95BGHGJGc/s320/DSC02686%25281%2529window.JPG" width="275" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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1. Green grow’th the holly<br />
So doth the ivy<br />
Though winter blasts blow na’er so high<br />
Green grow’th the holly <br />
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2. Gay are the flowers<br />
Hedgerows and ploughlands<br />
The days grow longer in the sun<br />
Soft fall the showers<br />
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Grain for thy labor<br />
With God must work for daily bread<br />
Else, man, thou starvest<br />
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4. Fast fall the shed leaves<br />
Russet and yellow<br />
But resting buds are smug and safe<br />
Where swung the dead leaves<br />
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5. Green grow’th the holly<br />
So doth the ivy<br />
The God of life can never die<br />
Hope! Saith the holly</span><br />
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</div><span style="float: none;"></span>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-25491793271774574762011-11-24T12:07:00.000-08:002011-11-24T12:07:43.619-08:00Musing the Muse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNhvplDc4J2dcFMopIZ0X-C85uXJnRsuW3TMtz-QTVWd6Mh3TShHUUY0bJRoL7BL5h9ZZT1C2W30plfFN1CSmU1nhbpUZIqbBdougO7HM9lJ5BAnmWUhOFLrSaNKB3YbPnmflYa4_kX0dy/s1600/df0452d6-3dec-4799-a0e6-354837824816.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNhvplDc4J2dcFMopIZ0X-C85uXJnRsuW3TMtz-QTVWd6Mh3TShHUUY0bJRoL7BL5h9ZZT1C2W30plfFN1CSmU1nhbpUZIqbBdougO7HM9lJ5BAnmWUhOFLrSaNKB3YbPnmflYa4_kX0dy/s400/df0452d6-3dec-4799-a0e6-354837824816.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">And it came to pass that within the Silence arose Thought, a movement of Nous within the Limitless Depth, alone and awake within the Silence and the Nous rose up from the Depth creating movement within it.</span></div><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
And this is the First Mystery whereby the Nous of the All came forth and stirred the Depth and the Silence.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">And Nous was naked and perfect, unbound, unbegotten, unborn. Being the Nous of the Eternal, the Father, she carried within herself the All, and the All was the Light within her and she was thereby the enclosing Darkness of being, the womb and mother of all that was to be. So it was in the Beginning.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"> Fragments from the Book of the Coiled Dragon, 130-133</span></span></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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"The soul answered, 'I saw you. You did not see me nor did you know me. You (mis)took the garment (I wore) for my (true) self. And you did not recognize me.'<br />
"After it had said these things, it left rejoicing greatly.<br />
"Again, it came to the third Power, which is called 'Ignorance.' [It] examined the soul closely, saying, 'Where are you going? You are bound by wickedness. Indeed you are bound! Do not judge!'<br />
"And the soul said, 'Why do you judge me, since I have not passed judgement? I have been bound, but I have not bound (anything). They did not recognize me, but I have recognized that the universe is to be dissolved, both the things of earth and those of heaven.'<br />
"When the soul had brought the third Power to naught, it went upward and saw the fourth Power. It had seven forms. The first form is darkness; the second is desire; the third is ignorance; the fourth is zeal for death; the fifth is the realm of the flesh; the sixth is the foolish wisdom of the flesh; the seventh is the wisdom of the wrathful person. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">These are the seven Powers of Wrath.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> "They interrogated the soul, 'Where are you coming from, human-killer, and where are you going, space-conqueror?'<br />
"The soul replied, saying, 'What binds me has been slain, and what surrounds me has been destroyed, and my desire has been brought to an end, and ignorance has died. In a [wor]ld, I was set loose from a world [an]d in a type, from a type which is above, and (from) the chain of forgetfulness which exists in time. From this hour on, for the time of the due season of the aeon, I will receive rest i[n] silence.' " </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The Gospel of Mary Magdalene</span></span></div><br />
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And Sacrifice; it is I who dies, I who am Sacrificed<br />
If you hold the four winds in your hand, I am with you<br />
For Day is but the Eye of the storm of Night<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><em>(The Wild Hunt)</em><em> </em></span></span></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Loudly through air at night they haste,<br />
An uproar on wild black horses!<br />
As a storm the wild crowds travel by<br />
With nothing but clouds for foothold.<br />
Over the valleys, the woods and meadows -<br />
Through darkness and weather, they never heed.<br />
The traveler throws himself frightened to ground.<br />
Listen... what clamor! It's the forces of Asgard!</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thor, the strong one, his hammer high,<br />
Stands tall in his rig, in front of the pack.<br />
He strikes his shield and hot red flames<br />
Light up the nightly raid at the scene.<br />
Horns blow, and an awesome noise<br />
From bells and riding gear resounds.<br />
Then the pack roars loudly and people listen<br />
With rising fear in their quaking homes.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Wild Hunt of Asgard raids the county<br />
Whilst fall and winter at stormy nights.<br />
But it favors to travel at Yuletide...<br />
They feast with trolls and giants;<br />
they closely ride by meadow and path<br />
And pass the fearful nation.<br />
Then, - take care farmer! Keep all in order!<br />
As the wild hunt of Asgard may visit your home!</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With the beer working in your lodge<br />
Awaking the heathen Yule-tradition...<br />
And fire from the fireplace shines<br />
on swinging knives and crazy eyes,<br />
Then a sudden shiver goes through the party,<br />
Then sound the nightly black riders' clamor...<br />
Then the walls crack and the glasses dance;<br />
the Armies of Asgard surround the building!</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyyH0IT581A5bu-KzRiWrLwBGQtt4MqIi3Zan9wbwoqzMk2U08EnfUF1_zC6tnqMi97TK3HAOOYEcKztIK49DT-s8XS4j2rRBZ5j3oEhIAKZqcI55xcnzKrh36HYwcq7vpGxq69TbJk22/s1600/800px-Aasgaardreien_peter_nicolai_arbo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="432" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyyH0IT581A5bu-KzRiWrLwBGQtt4MqIi3Zan9wbwoqzMk2U08EnfUF1_zC6tnqMi97TK3HAOOYEcKztIK49DT-s8XS4j2rRBZ5j3oEhIAKZqcI55xcnzKrh36HYwcq7vpGxq69TbJk22/s640/800px-Aasgaardreien_peter_nicolai_arbo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There was a wedding at Oevre Flage<br />
Three holy Yule-days to the end.<br />
Among the maids there were none like the bride<br />
And no rival to the groom among men.<br />
There was a glow to the shining hall<br />
from set tables and expensive metal,<br />
There was a treasure, the rumor says,<br />
Of copper on walls and silver on tables.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And merrily sounded the drums and fiddles<br />
as the groom was steadily dancing<br />
leading his bride among young men and women -<br />
Then the Halling-dance easily rumbled!<br />
To the Dancer's forceful moves and jumps<br />
the Maiden would swing like a pendulum,<br />
Then floated the noise and the music together<br />
And the hall would thunder from vigor and delight.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The third night, -when the beer was consumed<br />
through all the holidays - by old and young,<br />
Then thirst in the party was stopped,<br />
But the men were drunken and slow.<br />
Our bride wore her crown...<br />
It was time for the bowl to be sent round the table<br />
And the toastmaster demanded silence<br />
with a knock on the table, - and started his speech.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then charging in on the benched circle<br />
the widely infamous Seim's Berserks,<br />
Their eyes were rolling dark and wild<br />
On their foreheads they had scars from fighting.<br />
They leaped over the floor of the hall,<br />
-Yes! It was the brothers Grim and Wolf!<br />
Grim, who was recently turned down by the bride<br />
Came there himself, - and he was not invited.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The sleepy guests got up shaking</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqrYqXheI8zqGvflBXmAysObJe83yutdIFkWQFCuqM_YSQARgux5zb96loMmFZPaWGxPQzBgxGcTxRuom10Arga0aNK8ZuhtgwVKZklbH-mIBHYVCqvksLZKEKGehX_TlsPWZjAP7BiKVJ/s1600/349px-Valkyrie_and_raven.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqrYqXheI8zqGvflBXmAysObJe83yutdIFkWQFCuqM_YSQARgux5zb96loMmFZPaWGxPQzBgxGcTxRuom10Arga0aNK8ZuhtgwVKZklbH-mIBHYVCqvksLZKEKGehX_TlsPWZjAP7BiKVJ/s400/349px-Valkyrie_and_raven.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> And had little desire for fighting.<br />
Every raving man who raised his fist<br />
Was grabbed by the chest and thrown aside.<br />
The groom placed his mug down on the table<br />
Stepped up on the bench and asked for peace.<br />
But the brothers already took out their knives,<br />
- It was the groom's life it was all about.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then women gathered into a crowd<br />
and formed a guard for the man in danger;<br />
sheltered behind tables and benches,<br />
They stood closed in at the Bench of Honor.<br />
The eldest woman in their circle<br />
removed her headwear, revealed her gray hair<br />
and gave the groom the name of her son,<br />
Embraced him and sat him on her knee.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But the brothers wouldn't listen to women's plea -<br />
Attacked forward over tables and benches<br />
and divided the women with wildness-<br />
Now every thought of peace was forgotten...<br />
They grabbed their victim and dragged him along<br />
To the door of the hall and out through it.<br />
It came to a cruel fight in the yard,<br />
And the guests followed in wild disorder.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They rushed out there with candles and torches,<br />
‘Cause over the landscape the darkness reigned.<br />
They saw the groom standing tall and strong,<br />
As now he was strengthened by winter air.<br />
He used his knife for cutting and slashing -<br />
So he gave back what they offered him.<br />
The three of them formed an ugly triangle,<br />
And none would let go of the others.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then, -all of a sudden Grim fell over!<br />
With blood running like streams from his chest.<br />
Then even harder the other two wrestled<br />
And held each other’s backs in a grip.<br />
In the end the groom was laid to the ground,<br />
With the knife on it’s way to his throat...<br />
But then Wolf held back and stood like a drunk,<br />
And trembled and shook like a leaf.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As through the air in the dark came a thunder,<br />
- a howling horde on ferocious horses,<br />
It raced over woods to the wedding house,<br />
Intended to visit the bloody performance.</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHTJM67pxb2ZvF5nV2qoU57XSf3cKSDrARzmUp2xicGLo5b7A_FxNmRgogMtp6i1CjAY18BbYrFS6f3Ph9wlNTTTJi40sjmlrXHewR10Sf-FfwuiK0vhyphenhyphenLiqAdphmAJQY99RUhOkaR0DY3/s1600/440px-Valkyrie_by_Arbo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHTJM67pxb2ZvF5nV2qoU57XSf3cKSDrARzmUp2xicGLo5b7A_FxNmRgogMtp6i1CjAY18BbYrFS6f3Ph9wlNTTTJi40sjmlrXHewR10Sf-FfwuiK0vhyphenhyphenLiqAdphmAJQY99RUhOkaR0DY3/s640/440px-Valkyrie_by_Arbo.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then horns blew, and an awesome noise<br />
From bells and riding-gear resounded.<br />
Now it was close - it came over the hill -<br />
There was an outcry: The wild hunt of Asgard!</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There was a tempest in Heaven and Earth,<br />
That hurled a horror in every heart,<br />
It blasted along in growing circles,<br />
It punched with wings and grabbed with arms.<br />
Then Wolf was dragged away by his hair,<br />
thrown up in the air and taken away,<br />
Yes, taken away over woods and mountains,<br />
He was never seen or heard of again.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When tumults were over at the horror scene,<br />
lay Grim from his death pains coiled up,</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="pneg" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRi0MQ8yTo1YoXescPsEfIsa0mxkZxQwIU3Ragu1yPtvJFpc4m6Bipic1X_Kk5S2v83nnFmDpzy1V1YSdOZfRKn-VqucQL6yRDrbsqNbYythc8cXOkQh2ojzN5qmHsTUhEUH09uiCTEnkX/s1600/Wodan%2527s_wilde_Jagd_by_F__W__Heine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRi0MQ8yTo1YoXescPsEfIsa0mxkZxQwIU3Ragu1yPtvJFpc4m6Bipic1X_Kk5S2v83nnFmDpzy1V1YSdOZfRKn-VqucQL6yRDrbsqNbYythc8cXOkQh2ojzN5qmHsTUhEUH09uiCTEnkX/s640/Wodan%2527s_wilde_Jagd_by_F__W__Heine.jpg" width="417" /></a><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But the groom was escorted inside from the snow<br />
And placed on a bunk in the guestroom.<br />
His head was shaking, his blood was pouring;<br />
he was pending a while between life and death,<br />
But he was nursed and well taken care of,<br />
so by spring he had healed from it all.</span></em></div><div class="pneg" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now he sits there, - aged and well respected,<br />
He can gather his offspring around the fire,<br />
now he often tells stories in the circle<br />
And shortens time for the young and the old.<br />
It was like that last Yule-night too,<br />
When the youth shouted, "Tell us, tell us!"<br />
His eyes in flames as he was looking back...<br />
And then he recalled his wedding days.<br />
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</em><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><em><span style="color: #444444;">Johan Sebastian Welhaven (1807-1873</span></em></span></div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="pneg" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">The Wild Huntsman<br />
</span>THY rest was deep at the slumberer's hour<br />
If thou didst not hear the blast<br />
Of the savage horn, from the mountain-tower,<br />
As the Wild Night-Huntsman pass'd,<br />
And the roar of the stormy chase went by,<br />
Through the dark unquiet sky!<br />
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The stag sprung up from his mossy bed<br />
When he caught the piercing sounds,<br />
And the oak-boughs crash'd to his antler'd head<br />
As he flew from the viewless hounds;<br />
And the falcon soar'd from her craggy height,<br />
Away through the rushing night! <br />
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The banner shook on its ancient hold,<br />
And the pine in its desert-place,<br />
As the cloud and tempest onward roll'd<br />
With the din of the trampling race;<br />
And the glens were fill'd with the laugh and shout,<br />
And the bugle, ringing out! <br />
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From the chieftain's hand the wine-cup fell,<br />
At the castle's festive board,<br />
And a sudden pause came o'er the swell<br />
Of the harp's triumphal chord;<br />
And the Minnesinger's∗ thrilling lay<br />
In the hall died fast away. <br />
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The convent's chanted rite was stay'd,<br />
And the hermit dropp'd his beads,<br />
And a trembling ran through the forest-shade,<br />
At the neigh of the phantom steeds,<br />
And the church-bells peal'd to the rocking blast<br />
As the Wild Night-Huntsman pass'd. <br />
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The storm hath swept with the chase away,<br />
There is stillness in the sky,<br />
But the mother looks on her son to-day,<br />
With a troubled heart and eye,<br />
And the maiden's brow hath a shade of care<br />
Midst the gleam of her golden hair! <br />
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The Rhine flows bright, but its waves ere long<br />
Must hear a voice of war,<br />
And a clash of spears our hills among,<br />
And a trumpet from afar;<br />
And the brave on a bloody turf must lie,<br />
For the Huntsman hath gone by!<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Mrs. Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793-1835</span></em></span></div><br />
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</div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-61810333768089368882011-10-26T03:10:00.000-07:002011-10-26T03:10:07.346-07:00Dia De Los Muertos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_-f-Ei-UXGrOp73Uk2zJg6K-VU3umLOggQB2Mm9kVrAjCgRkjwoSzAaW1eFvxv6JMlxR6n-SCrXvzy9k1hSMtAJh0vVFqcKH0hhmerVRGMF_5H4pHMjtkCkk5HSYcqNPKC-elvKNq25R/s1600/Scan3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_-f-Ei-UXGrOp73Uk2zJg6K-VU3umLOggQB2Mm9kVrAjCgRkjwoSzAaW1eFvxv6JMlxR6n-SCrXvzy9k1hSMtAJh0vVFqcKH0hhmerVRGMF_5H4pHMjtkCkk5HSYcqNPKC-elvKNq25R/s400/Scan3.jpg" width="400" /></a> <span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Celebrations honouring the dead are prevalent among many ancient cultures, sharing similar religious commonalities, sadly lacking in modern European religiosity. During a pilgrimage to Mexico I was privileged to witness and participate in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Dia de los Muertos’</i> held November 1st –2nd each year throughout Hispanic America. Originally it would have been celebrated in the Aztec month of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Miccailhuitontli</i>,’ roughly equivalent to the Gregorian months of July/August. Naturally, the colonising Spanish prohibited this festival and moved the greatly sanitised theme to November, supplanting it by their own Feasts for All Saints and All Souls. Despite the obvious Catholic overlays, this festival remains primarily Mesoamerican, revealing many indigenous celebrations of death and ancestry. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Colour pre-dominates the scene as fire and candles illuminate the night glowing orange, the colour of the flower of death. Fruits, costumes and masks appear in abundance decorating the doorways of shops and houses everywhere. It is still believed that flowers given as sacrificial offerings are at the behest of Quetzalcoatl who instructed his people to give only these and butterflies in lieu of human flesh. Upon entering the many Cemeteries throughout Mexico,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>everyone is offered steaming bowls of rich, dark hot chocolate and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘pan de muertos’</i> (bread of the dead), which is a shared consumption between the living and the dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After blessings, these ‘dumb’ suppers are removed from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘offrendas’</i> (private altars) for the public in what anthropologists recognise as the ancient tribal activity of ‘re-distributive’ feasting. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Spectacular, imposing shrines line the quadrangle of tombs, dedicated to past dignitaries and revered members of the community. Constructed of arched reeds and sheaves of corn, the shrines are adorned with garlands of tangerines and flowers. Water too is set out to slake the insatiable thirst of the dead. Immense national pride and civic prowess among competing teams guarantees a magnificent display, mindful of disqualification for the introduction of foreign elements i.e. pumpkins and cauldrons. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">By Kenneth Grahame [1859-1932]</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">A riot of scarlet on gold, the red poppy of our native fields tosses<br />
heavy tresses with gipsy abandon; her sister of the sea-shore is<br />
golden, a yellow blossom that loves the keen salt savour of the spray.<br />
Of another hue is the poppy of history, of romance, of the muse. White<br />
as the stark death-shroud, pallid as the cheeks of that queen of a<br />
silent land whose temples she languorously crowns, ghost-like beside<br />
her fuller-blooded kin, she droops dream-laden, Papaver somniferum,<br />
the poppy of the magic juice of oblivion. In the royal plenitude of<br />
summer, the scarlet blooms will sometimes seem but a red cry from<br />
earth in memory of the many dews of battle that have drenched these<br />
acres in years gone by, for little end but that these same ``bubbles<br />
of blood'' might glow to-day; the yellow flower does but hint of the<br />
gold that has dashed a thousand wrecks at her feet around these<br />
shores: for happier suggestion we must turn to her of the pallid<br />
petals, our white Lady of Consolation. Fitting hue to typify the<br />
crowning blessing of forgetfulness! Too often the sable robes of night<br />
dissemble sleeplessness, remorse, regret, self-questioning. Let black,<br />
then, rather stand for hideous memory: white for blessed blank<br />
oblivion, happiest gift of the gods! For who, indeed, can say that the<br />
record of his life is not crowded with failure and mistake, stained<br />
with its petty cruelties of youth, its meannesses and follies of later<br />
years, all which storm and clamour incessantly at the gates of memory,<br />
refusing to be shut out? Leave us alone, O gods, to remember our<br />
felicities, our successes: only aid us, ye who recall no gifts, aptly and </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">discreetly to forget.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Discreetly, we say; for it is a tactful forgetfulness that makes for<br />
happiness. In the minor matter, for instance, of small money<br />
obligations, that shortness of memory which the school of Professors<br />
Panurge and Falstaff rashly praises, may often betray into some<br />
unfortunate allusion or reference to the subject which shall pain the<br />
delicate feelings of the obliger; or, if he be of coarser clay, shall<br />
lead him in his anger to express himself with unseemliness, and<br />
thereby to do violence to his mental tranquillity, in which alone, as<br />
Marcus Aurelius teacheth, lieth the perfection of moral character.<br />
This is to be a stumbling-block and an offence against the brethren.<br />
It is better to keep just memory enough to avoid such hidden rocks and<br />
shoals; in which thing Mr Swiveller is our great exemplar, whose<br />
mental map of London was a chart wherein every creditor was carefully</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> ‘buoyed.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">The wise man prays, we are told, for a good digestion: let us add to<br />
the prayer -- and a bad memory. Truly we are sometimes tempted to<br />
think that we are the only ones cursed with this corroding canker. Our<br />
friends, we can swear, have all, without exception, atrocious<br />
memories; why is ours alone so hideously vital? Yet this isolation<br />
must be imaginary; for even as we engage in this selfish moan for help<br />
in our own petty case, we are moved to add a word for certain others<br />
who, meaning no ill, unthinkingly go about to add to humanity's<br />
already heavy load of suffering. How much needless misery is caused in<br />
this world by the reckless ``recollections'' of dramatic and other<br />
celebrities? You gods, in lending ear to our prayer, remember too,<br />
above all other sorts and conditions of men, these our poor </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">erring brothers and sisters, the sometime sommités of Mummerdom!</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Moments there are, it is true, when this traitor spirit tricks you:<br />
when some subtle scent, some broken notes of an old song, nay, even<br />
some touch of a fresher air on your cheeks at night -- a breath of<br />
``le vent qui vient à travers la montagne'' -- have power to ravish,<br />
to catch you back to the blissful days when you trod the one authentic<br />
Paradise. Moments only, alas! Then the evil crowd rushes in again,<br />
howls in the sacred grove, tramples down and defiles the happy garden;<br />
and once more you cry to Our Lady of Sleep, crowned of the white<br />
poppy. And you envy your dog who, for full discharge of a present<br />
benefaction having wagged you a hearty, expressive tail, will then<br />
pursue it gently round the hearth-rug till, in restful coil, half-dozen<br />
diurnal sleeps being in truth a royal amnesty.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">But whose the hand that shall reach us the herb of healing? Perdita<br />
blesses every guest at the shearing with a handful of blossom; but<br />
this gift is not to be asked of her whose best wish to her friends is<br />
``grace and remembrance.'' The fair Ophelia, rather: nay, for as a<br />
nursling she hugs her grief, and for her the memory of the past is a<br />
``sorrow's crown of sorrow.'' What flowers are these her pale hand<br />
offers? ``There's pansies, that's for thoughts!''For me rather, O<br />
dear Ophelia, the white poppy of forgetfulness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.online-literature.com/grahame/3060/</span></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-62619941556927513992011-09-22T05:24:00.000-07:002011-09-22T05:24:43.774-07:00MICHAELMAS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj806AdjAjt_QEAqgSQQWogTLMLtM6LEF0qF-ZOwoZVj0mbBNaGRvonw9uLqPouZyhOeOOKRil0mjKkaKfvd4lef5d8G46WXwjbzzICS8O3mv57mioJnFpR1VAPAfKU3g3XFzmG7KAFOtDH/s1600/496px-Giuseppe_Arcimboldo_-_Autumn%252C_1573.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj806AdjAjt_QEAqgSQQWogTLMLtM6LEF0qF-ZOwoZVj0mbBNaGRvonw9uLqPouZyhOeOOKRil0mjKkaKfvd4lef5d8G46WXwjbzzICS8O3mv57mioJnFpR1VAPAfKU3g3XFzmG7KAFOtDH/s320/496px-Giuseppe_Arcimboldo_-_Autumn%252C_1573.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">Michaelmas</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">About the time of Michael's feast<br />
And all his angels,<br />
There comes a word to man and beast<br />
By dark evangels.<br />
<br />
Then hearing what the wild things say<br />
To one another,<br />
Those creatures first born of our gray<br />
Mysterious Mother,<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">The greatness of the world's unrest<br />
Steals through our pulses;<br />
Our own life takes a meaning guessed<br />
From the torn dulse's.<br />
<br />
The draft and set of deep sea-tides<br />
Swirling and flowing,<br />
Bears every filmy flake that rides,<br />
Grandly unknowing.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">The sunlight listens; thin and fine<br />
The crickets whistle;<br />
And floating midges fill the shine<br />
Like a seeding thistle.<br />
<br />
The hawkbit flies his golden flag<br />
From rocky pasture,<br />
Bidding his legions never lag<br />
Through morning's vasture.<br />
<br />
Soon we shall see the red vines ramp<br />
Through forest borders,<br />
And Indian summer breaking camp<br />
To silent orders.<br />
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Their prickly houses<br />
Agog at news which reached them first<br />
In sap's carouses.<br />
<br />
The long noons turn the ribstons red,<br />
The pippins yellow;<br />
The wild duck from his reedy bed<br />
Summons his fellow.<br />
<br />
The robins keep the underbrush<br />
Songless and wary,<br />
As though they feared some frostier hush<br />
Might bid them tarry;</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">Perhaps in the great North they heard<br />
Of silence falling<br />
Upon the world without a word,<br />
White and appalling.<br />
<br />
The ash-tree and the lady-fern,<br />
In russet frondage,<br />
Proclaim 'tis time for our return<br />
To vagabondage.<br />
<br />
All summer idle have we kept;<br />
But on a morning,<br />
Where the blue hazy mountains slept,<br />
A scarlet warning<br />
<br />
Disturbs our day-dream with a start;<br />
A leaf turns over;<br />
And every earthling is at heart<br />
Once more a rover.<br />
</span></span></div><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigVnNbps2XMywb3w7IXe2oZN9CH0yDRoZooyg8AfBZUqgMPHDMl4KzYIwFlZunZEG-MKrC95SXPcEEbdc7y2M4PFpWkJEgMYYzuG0971LqwpWGfFjDaf5JKwf3Y9UsXyJmlz_CXh4h8q58/s1600/The_Brazen_Serpent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigVnNbps2XMywb3w7IXe2oZN9CH0yDRoZooyg8AfBZUqgMPHDMl4KzYIwFlZunZEG-MKrC95SXPcEEbdc7y2M4PFpWkJEgMYYzuG0971LqwpWGfFjDaf5JKwf3Y9UsXyJmlz_CXh4h8q58/s320/The_Brazen_Serpent.jpg" width="248" /></a><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">All winter we shall toil and plod,<br />
Eating and drinking;<br />
But now's the little time when God<br />
Sets folk to thinking.<br />
<br />
"Consider," says the quiet sun,<br />
"How far I wander;<br />
Yet when had I not time on one<br />
More flower to squander?"<br />
<br />
"Consider," says the restless tide,<br />
"My endless labor;<br />
Yet when was I content beside<br />
My nearest neighbor?"<br />
<br />
So wander-lust to wander-lure,<br />
As seed to season,<br />
Must rise and wend, possessed and sure<br />
In sweet unreason.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div></span></span><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPzWDPZ94G6P1-aXqfHiR1La8DDz6jfKy7qTq3MldJBZETcs0FRV1QUGZffHwB0M_Twsk9dUuaGyId8ed8GAz9b4uLcHX2KfAkHw5c9ObcylpNhCXu5_sN8GopXa7GgtIUxk7JEawFXtRV/s1600/st-michael-archangel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPzWDPZ94G6P1-aXqfHiR1La8DDz6jfKy7qTq3MldJBZETcs0FRV1QUGZffHwB0M_Twsk9dUuaGyId8ed8GAz9b4uLcHX2KfAkHw5c9ObcylpNhCXu5_sN8GopXa7GgtIUxk7JEawFXtRV/s1600/st-michael-archangel.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">For doorstone and repose are good,<br />
And kind is duty;<br />
But joy is in the solitude<br />
With shy-heart beauty.<br />
<br />
And Truth is one whose ways are meek<br />
Beyond foretelling;<br />
And far his journey who would seek<br />
Her lowly dwelling.<br />
<br />
She leads him by a thousand heights,<br />
Lonelily faring,<br />
With sunrise and with eagle flights<br />
To mate his daring.<br />
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Than Leif of yore did,<br />
Voyaging for continents no log<br />
Has yet recorded.<br />
<br />
He travels by a polar star,<br />
Now bright, now hidden,<br />
For a free land, though rest be far<br />
And roads forbidden,<br />
<br />
Till on a day with sweet coarse bread<br />
And wine she stays him,<br />
Then in a cool and narrow bed<br />
To slumber lays him.</span><br />
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Of fin and feather,<br />
By shady wood and shadowy brine,<br />
When comes the weather<br />
<br />
For migrants to be moving on,<br />
By lost indenture<br />
You flock and gather and are gone:<br />
The old adventure!<br />
</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">I too have my unwritten date,<br />
My gypsy presage;<br />
And on the brink of fall I wait<br />
The darkling message.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">The sign, from prying eyes concealed,<br />
Is yet how flagrant!<br />
Here's ragged-robin in the field,<br />
A simple vagrant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;"><a href="http://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">William Bliss Carman</span></a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">(April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">'Canada's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_laureate" title="Poet laureate"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">poet laureate</span></a>’ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_Carman]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">All images courtesy of wikicommons.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></div></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-88032355198635325112011-09-07T14:03:00.000-07:002011-09-07T14:03:58.650-07:00Tamerlane<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: left;"><span><em><span style="font-size: large;">Tamerlane</span></em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;">by Edgar Allan Poe</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4wkrgdHLH9hHWdgdL0-lFQD6gQ1iOSe0FMDSF6D9Yxm56JV_fP25tuNiZBe9UYVkb1JG2kZq2I5Q06xq_GJYrbV92rJ-GdauxufUQiI4H1lCGhvHgduoL8hbb8RB3ekqj_Zs8upjTaLm/s1600/DSC03257.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4wkrgdHLH9hHWdgdL0-lFQD6gQ1iOSe0FMDSF6D9Yxm56JV_fP25tuNiZBe9UYVkb1JG2kZq2I5Q06xq_GJYrbV92rJ-GdauxufUQiI4H1lCGhvHgduoL8hbb8RB3ekqj_Zs8upjTaLm/s320/DSC03257.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> <span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;">Kind solace in a dying hour!</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such, father, is not (now) my theme-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will not madly deem that power</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of Earth may shrive me of the sin</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unearthly pride hath revell'd in-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;">I have no time to dote or dream:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You call it hope- that fire of fire!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is but agony of desire:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I can hope- Oh God! I can-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its fount is holier- more divine-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would not call thee fool, old man,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But such is not a gift of thine.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl9WWcNVKKiW1WkyivXVVeJGDthHXQqRlZT4sKIKHcJSWIQPl7Z28Z8Jw9jmQkJZVTlKfxsqML0x-Duep02atZIqnlNxYhlJD5B2L5hBnZP59eyjNdx4ufVmk3-w_BAn7S43A5TJiXs3wL/s1600/DSC02980.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl9WWcNVKKiW1WkyivXVVeJGDthHXQqRlZT4sKIKHcJSWIQPl7Z28Z8Jw9jmQkJZVTlKfxsqML0x-Duep02atZIqnlNxYhlJD5B2L5hBnZP59eyjNdx4ufVmk3-w_BAn7S43A5TJiXs3wL/s320/DSC02980.JPG" width="290" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">Know thou the secret of a spirit</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bow'd from its wild pride into shame.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O yearning heart! I did inherit</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thy withering portion with the fame,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The searing glory which hath shone</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amid the jewels of my throne,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Halo of Hell! and with a pain</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not Hell shall make me fear again-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O craving heart, for the lost flowers</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And sunshine of my summer hours!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The undying voice of that dead time,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With its interminable chime,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rings, in the spirit of a spell,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon thy emptiness- a knell.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMaY0kl_on3i9LQicmZmRukuvcabrOE1sgDqF6u1J_30XZCyQ-VnjMK8elrAO9QkE7RcSD771d9q_8wP_nUUDKux3Q_QgSl9xrFFmwqbGjGZl7AUxWLqFABp4rflzWJkSnpLreXLDnlMhD/s1600/DSC03264.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="214" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMaY0kl_on3i9LQicmZmRukuvcabrOE1sgDqF6u1J_30XZCyQ-VnjMK8elrAO9QkE7RcSD771d9q_8wP_nUUDKux3Q_QgSl9xrFFmwqbGjGZl7AUxWLqFABp4rflzWJkSnpLreXLDnlMhD/s320/DSC03264.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not always been as now:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fever'd diadem on my brow</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I claim'd and won usurpingly-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hath not the same fierce heirdom given</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rome to the Caesar- this to me?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heritage of a kingly mind,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a proud spirit which hath striven</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Triumphantly with human kind.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">On mountain soil I first drew life:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mists of the Taglay have shed</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nightly their dews upon my head,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I believe, the winged strife</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And tumult of the headlong air</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have nestled in my very hair.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;">Appeared to my half-closing eye</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pageantry of monarchy,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the deep trumpet-thunder's roar</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Came hurriedly upon me, telling</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of human battle, where my voice,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My own voice, silly child!- was swelling</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(O! how my spirit would rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And leap within me at the cry)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The battle-cry of Victory!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; mso-spacerun: yes;"> <img border="0" height="400" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2JsBxFedDoJvsJh8yel8Un2cEhrk0PJS5Oi6Qd_5D2WkrwPJ6B44nE3jeDDQgUPA7cwNJuhed-2NZFoRP3r-XO2JuI3ZZvQ2Rb_cFey-tH8jn2Onfqo7GDT1pxVgKHh2l8XIlaTG8DXk/s400/DSC02935.JPG" width="170" /></span><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"> The rain came down upon my head</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unshelter'd- and the heavy wind</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rendered me mad and deaf and blind.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was but man, I thought, who shed</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laurels upon me: and the rush-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The torrent of the chilly air</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gurgled within my ear the crush</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of empires- with the captive's prayer-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hum of suitors- and the tone</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of flattery 'round a sovereign's throne.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></span><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;">My passions, from that hapless hour,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usurp'd a tyranny which men</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have deem'd, since I have reach'd to power,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My innate nature- be it so:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But father, there liv'd one who, then,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then- in my boyhood- when their fire</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Burn'd with a still intenser glow,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(For passion must, with youth, expire)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>E'en then who knew this iron heart</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In woman's weakness had a part.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no words- alas!- to tell</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The loveliness of loving well!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor would I now attempt to trace</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more than beauty of a face</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whose lineaments, upon my mind,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are- shadows on th' unstable wind:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus I remember having dwelt</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some page of early lore upon,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With loitering eye, till I have felt</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The letters- with their meaning- melt</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To fantasies- with none.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij0Al1k8neEMVqp5rxTmfhN_G8NxVefcb_LNrq_Ja88T4UIKMEkpgvBggmMNdwxGALupskXMgVPOgS9KAafzFDCPuH9bWYkQL4xZWsHTzVUv9fifDR58ihVmFJJ9KMHDTU4htVQ0AA1qvN/s1600/DSC03040.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="214" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij0Al1k8neEMVqp5rxTmfhN_G8NxVefcb_LNrq_Ja88T4UIKMEkpgvBggmMNdwxGALupskXMgVPOgS9KAafzFDCPuH9bWYkQL4xZWsHTzVUv9fifDR58ihVmFJJ9KMHDTU4htVQ0AA1qvN/s320/DSC03040.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O, she was worthy of all love!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love- as in infancy was mine-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Twas such as angel minds above</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Might envy; her young heart the shrine</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On which my every hope and thought</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were incense- then a goodly gift,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For they were childish and upright-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pure- as her young example taught:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did I leave it, and, adrift,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust to the fire within, for light?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We grew in age- and love- together,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roaming the forest, and the wild;</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My breast her shield in wintry weather-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when the friendly sunshine smil'd,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she would mark the opening skies,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw no Heaven- but in her eyes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDn-6IzgsaVy0BDhuY7CKOxonzNAyMV1xX-XPeNMFsk7sHTUB6Jc4zmRho6UOg9ltUuZtiP_A4TkZs0M9mzjfetCGAyMM4blQjwsTk8Y3heMKbddTI9ibPd1v8R8BKbQnHfgXc8_KKxNa/s1600/DSC03067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="400" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDn-6IzgsaVy0BDhuY7CKOxonzNAyMV1xX-XPeNMFsk7sHTUB6Jc4zmRho6UOg9ltUuZtiP_A4TkZs0M9mzjfetCGAyMM4blQjwsTk8Y3heMKbddTI9ibPd1v8R8BKbQnHfgXc8_KKxNa/s400/DSC03067.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Young Love's first lesson is- the heart:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For 'mid that sunshine, and those smiles,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When, from our little cares apart,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And laughing at her girlish wiles,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd throw me on her throbbing breast,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And pour my spirit out in tears-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no need to speak the rest-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No need to quiet any fears</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of her- who ask'd no reason why,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But turn'd on me her quiet eye!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet more than worthy of the love</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My spirit struggled with, and strove,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When, on the mountain peak, alone,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ambition lent it a new tone-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had no being- but in thee:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world, and all it did contain</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the earth- the air- the sea-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its joy- its little lot of pain</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was new pleasure- the ideal,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dim vanities of dreams by night-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHjDKw_3GkAfvkgjBQ6VAW-96fLKzZ_ORbThDiTTJTaAd-Douj3hyphenhyphenfngG65_vpUhRyMpyf9vQsHbHgZ4OVGKTlGW56nC2l42K36cHVzk7ysvYS3c9wBco6mlVNsLpxNqGQ1hyJ2PD7afrM/s1600/DSC03274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="214" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHjDKw_3GkAfvkgjBQ6VAW-96fLKzZ_ORbThDiTTJTaAd-Douj3hyphenhyphenfngG65_vpUhRyMpyf9vQsHbHgZ4OVGKTlGW56nC2l42K36cHVzk7ysvYS3c9wBco6mlVNsLpxNqGQ1hyJ2PD7afrM/s320/DSC03274.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And dimmer nothings which were real-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Shadows- and a more shadowy light!)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parted upon their misty wings,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, so, confusedly, became</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thine image, and- a name- a name!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two separate- yet most intimate things.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was ambitious- have you known</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The passion, father? You have not:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cottager, I mark'd a throne</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of half the world as all my own,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And murmur'd at such lowly lot-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, just like any other dream,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon the vapour of the dew</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My own had past, did not the beam</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of beauty which did while it thro'</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The minute- the hour- the day- oppress</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind with double loveliness.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walk'd together on the crown</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of a high mountain which look'd down</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afar from its proud natural towers</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of rock and forest, on the hills-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dwindled hills! begirt with bowers,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And shouting with a thousand rills.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spoke to her of power and pride,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But mystically- in such guise</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That she might deem it nought beside</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moment's converse; in her eyes</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read, perhaps too carelessly-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A mingled feeling with my own-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flush on her bright cheek, to me</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seem'd to become a queenly throne</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too well that I should let it be</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Light in the wilderness alone.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4Rvgk8R98S-_b24uywi29661OPHAmLo3pbnfZ-vcnAK-NP00s7qxZsEw3R8YWCUarmXBZ4NYZiIujNrmUuIcnnqVCse6JxW-IN-QFOAeJSeZRHvlDAHdaHzrC5j6oUqGxCoVgPk4q0Cs/s1600/DSC02934.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="320" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4Rvgk8R98S-_b24uywi29661OPHAmLo3pbnfZ-vcnAK-NP00s7qxZsEw3R8YWCUarmXBZ4NYZiIujNrmUuIcnnqVCse6JxW-IN-QFOAeJSeZRHvlDAHdaHzrC5j6oUqGxCoVgPk4q0Cs/s320/DSC02934.JPG" width="210" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wrapp'd myself in grandeur then,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And donn'd a visionary crown-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet it was not that Fantasy</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had thrown her mantle over me-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that, among the rabble- men,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lion ambition is chained down-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And crouches to a keeper's hand-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not so in deserts where the grand-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wild- the terrible conspire</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With their own breath to fan his fire.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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her pride</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above all cities? in her hand</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their destinies? in all beside</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of glory which the world hath known</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stands she not nobly and alone?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Falling- her veriest stepping-stone</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shall form the pedestal of a throne-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And who her sovereign? Timour- he</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whom the astonished people saw</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Striding o'er empires haughtily</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A diadem'd outlaw!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SSucTAG6a7OJmAU3tzHyEIc9cRx4si3ZJ_DmTCOl3Za1gA62ALZCAvYm8Bmwi7k9GWtT_h0c0PbYCrhzf4ndy65M2cNsVgkxgtjQkrLvxU7mRB4V91_wSbdbJHrd6nMt-PYgotUdBUOJ/s1600/DSC02405.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="214" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SSucTAG6a7OJmAU3tzHyEIc9cRx4si3ZJ_DmTCOl3Za1gA62ALZCAvYm8Bmwi7k9GWtT_h0c0PbYCrhzf4ndy65M2cNsVgkxgtjQkrLvxU7mRB4V91_wSbdbJHrd6nMt-PYgotUdBUOJ/s320/DSC02405.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O, human love! thou spirit given</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which fall'st into the soul like rain</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon the Siroc-wither'd plain,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, failing in thy power to bless,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But leav'st the heart a wilderness!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Idea! which bindest life around</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With music of so strange a sound,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And beauty of so wild a birth-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Farewell! for I have won the Earth.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzH2_nSM5UToNTMvzjyw8ojoEwKzTZVOA9mZCMMiHL_o07RXfXuBOyeCJd02aDt4DKxcEZG_w2HMoCiknRcLgaaB1i5uEBIDHCrphWJUCjbmHczQR-SsQZSkvz1T2kajBoLOooCvj5CIS/s1600/DSC03373.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="320" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzH2_nSM5UToNTMvzjyw8ojoEwKzTZVOA9mZCMMiHL_o07RXfXuBOyeCJd02aDt4DKxcEZG_w2HMoCiknRcLgaaB1i5uEBIDHCrphWJUCjbmHczQR-SsQZSkvz1T2kajBoLOooCvj5CIS/s320/DSC03373.JPG" width="205" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Hope, the eagle that tower'd, could see</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No cliff beyond him in the sky,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His pinions were bent droopingly-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And homeward turn'd his soften'd eye.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Twas sunset: when the sun will part</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There comes a sullenness of heart</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To him who still would look upon</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The glory of the summer sun.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So often lovely, and will list</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the sound of the coming darkness (known</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To those whose spirits hearken) as one</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who, in a dream of night, would fly</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But cannot from a danger nigh.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGsisJkj46UU1TwCCeXtMqFX0pfXv7hRv8YdG-EtkfFk34RjGrxpINZ12unNLIb7oTg2EbIgcrJCqYfjXlHa0N_b4jjnbU3p5cOlsjl5dGdBSA9fGhK6NIKO5uFgWQFMrCPjaTu7KDCOT/s1600/DSC03065.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="320" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGsisJkj46UU1TwCCeXtMqFX0pfXv7hRv8YdG-EtkfFk34RjGrxpINZ12unNLIb7oTg2EbIgcrJCqYfjXlHa0N_b4jjnbU3p5cOlsjl5dGdBSA9fGhK6NIKO5uFgWQFMrCPjaTu7KDCOT/s320/DSC03065.JPG" width="239" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What tho' the moon- the white moon</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shed all the splendour of her noon,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her smile is chilly, and her beam,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that time of dreariness, will seem</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(So like you gather in your breath)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A portrait taken after death.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And boyhood is a summer sun</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whose waning is the dreariest one-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all we live to know is known,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all we seek to keep hath flown-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let life, then, as the day-flower, fall</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the noon-day beauty- which is all.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reach'd my home- my home no more</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all had flown who made it so.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pass'd from out its mossy door,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, tho' my tread was soft and low,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A voice came from the threshold stone</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of one whom I had earlier known-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O, I defy thee, Hell, to show</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On beds of fire that burn below,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A humbler heart- a deeper woe.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUb2Ilbaj3gDl33YbtK0H-GZrcRVimbaKondJUX4PufrSbEIio3N40zwF6ydIGPuAxBz-uaI-RDbQ2j3JbgLwfUgD_nkwqJwUV5peTSKYWc3rMpnmphU4MlwltRRxOQb65t9KBqvpBVY0v/s1600/DSC03293.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="320" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUb2Ilbaj3gDl33YbtK0H-GZrcRVimbaKondJUX4PufrSbEIio3N40zwF6ydIGPuAxBz-uaI-RDbQ2j3JbgLwfUgD_nkwqJwUV5peTSKYWc3rMpnmphU4MlwltRRxOQb65t9KBqvpBVY0v/s320/DSC03293.JPG" width="207" /></span></a><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"> Father, I firmly do believe-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know- for Death, who comes for me</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From regions of the blest afar,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where there is nothing to deceive,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hath left his iron gate ajar,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And rays of truth you cannot see</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are flashing thro' Eternity-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do believe that Eblis hath</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A snare in every human path-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Else how, when in the holy grove</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wandered of the idol, Love,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who daily scents his snowy wings</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With incense of burnt offerings</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the most unpolluted things,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whose pleasant bowers are yet so riven</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above with trellis'd rays from Heaven,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBlUdBml1hxUcmrM1kXgxI3AbB-_YD6Bs3OwsQDFfINKKlJhKwsM_yiKDZcUuix002G_5h099hFxHAYQAba4V9b1j2lm1O2WRBRyg9MMdmix6QulqbYUCQDtcapqZwtBcal9vIgWtk8NR/s1600/DSC03321.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img border="0" height="320" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBlUdBml1hxUcmrM1kXgxI3AbB-_YD6Bs3OwsQDFfINKKlJhKwsM_yiKDZcUuix002G_5h099hFxHAYQAba4V9b1j2lm1O2WRBRyg9MMdmix6QulqbYUCQDtcapqZwtBcal9vIgWtk8NR/s320/DSC03321.JPG" width="85" /></span></a><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No mote may shun- no tiniest fly-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lightning of his eagle eye-</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How was it that Ambition crept,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unseen, amid the revels there,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Till growing bold, he laughed and leapt</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the tangles of Love's very hair?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 110%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2JsBxFedDoJvsJh8yel8Un2cEhrk0PJS5Oi6Qd_5D2WkrwPJ6B44nE3jeDDQgUPA7cwNJuhed-2NZFoRP3r-XO2JuI3ZZvQ2Rb_cFey-tH8jn2Onfqo7GDT1pxVgKHh2l8XIlaTG8DXk/s1600/DSC02935.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-34489096684243126242011-08-24T07:39:00.000-07:002011-08-24T07:39:02.843-07:00Inanna, Queen of the Heavens, Earth and the Seas<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">ISHTAR'S MIDNIGHT COURTSHIP IN THE PALACE OF IZDUBAR.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">As Samas' car sank in the glowing west,<br />
And Sin the moon-god forth had come full drest<br />
For starry dance across the glistening skies,<br />
The sound of work for man on earth now dies,<br />
And all betake themselves to sweet repose.<br />
The silver light of Sin above bright flows,<br />
And floods the figures on the painted walls,<br />
O'er sculptured lions, softly, lightly falls;<br />
Like grim and silent watch-dogs at the door<br />
They stand; in marble check their leaping roar.<br />
The King within his chamber went his way,<br />
Upon his golden jewelled couch he lay.<br />
The silken scarlet canopy was hung<br />
In graceful drapery and loosely clung</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">Around his couch, and purple damask cloths<br />
Embroidered with rare skill, preserved from moths<br />
By rich perfumes, to the carved lintel clung<br />
In graceful folds; thus o'er the entrance hung.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">Queen Ishtar softly comes, and o'er his dreams<br />
A mystic spell she draws, until it seems<br />
While half awake he lies, that she is yet<br />
Close nestling in his arms, as he had met<br />
Her in the wood, and with her there reclined,<br />
While her soft arms around him were entwined.<br />
Thus while he sleeps she hovers o'er his bed<br />
With throbbing heart, and close inclines her head<br />
Until her lips near touch the sleeping King's,<br />
But daring not to kiss.<br />
She love thus brings,</span></div><br />
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And on his breast her glorious head she places;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">Embracing him, she softly through her lips<br />
And his, the sweetest earthly nectar sips,<br />
While he in sleep lies murmuring of love,<br />
And she in blissful ecstasy doth move.<br />
Her lips to his, she wildly places there,<br />
Until to him it seems a fond nightmare.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">And thus, against his will, she fondly takes<br />
What he her shall deny when he awakes,<br />
The stolen kisses both the lovers thrill:<br />
Unquenched her warm desire would kiss him still,<br />
But his hot blood now warms him in his dream<br />
Which is much more to him than it doth seem;<br />
And clasping her within convulsing arms,<br />
Receives a thrill that all his nerves alarms,<br />
And wakes him from the dreams she had instilled.<br />
"What means this fantasy that hath me filled,<br />
And spirit form that o'er my pillow leans;<br />
I wonder what this fragrant incense means?<br />
Oh, tush! 'tis but an idle, wildering dream,<br />
But how delightful, joyous it did seem!<br />
Her beauteous form it had, its breath perfume;<br />
Do spirit forms such loveliness assume?"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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And quickly she herself doth now conceal<br />
Behind the damask curtains at the door.<br />
When he awoke, sprang to the chamber floor,<br />
As his own maid the queen herself transforms,<br />
Says entering in haste:<br />
"What wild alarms Thee, Sar?" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">and then demure awaits reply,<br />
In doubt to hear or to his bosom fly.<br />
"My maid art thou? 'Tis well, for I have dreamed<br />
Of spirits, as a Zi-ru fair it seemed."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">Text: TABLET II--COLUMN I</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/iai/iai08.htm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">Image 2: Photo credit copyright Shani Oates</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #ddd9c3; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 230;">Images 1,3 &4, Wikicommons & http://proteusinstitute.com/attachments/Image/inanna/The_Lovers__Dumuzi___Inanna.jpg</span></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-83548430618480151332011-07-31T05:47:00.000-07:002011-07-31T05:47:58.829-07:00Phanes - the Lightbringer<div style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-linespan: 3; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: dropcap-dropped; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"><tbody>
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Egg-born, rejoicing in thy golden wings,<br />
Having the countenance of a bull, the procreator of the blessed gods and mortal men,<br />
The renowned Light, the far-celebrated Ericepæus,<br />
Ineffable, occult, impetuous, all-glittering strength;<br />
Who scatterest the twilight clouds of darkness from the eyes,<br />
And roamest throughout the world upon the flight of thy wings,<br />
Who bringest forth the pure and brilliant light, wherefore I invoke thee as Phanes,<br />
As Priapus the king, and as dazzling fountain of splendour.<br />
Come, then, blessed being, full of wisdom and generation, come in joy<br />
To thy sacred, ever-varying mystery. Be present with the Priests of thy Orgies.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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The wide-bosomed Earth, the ever stable seat of all<br />
The Immortals that inhabit the snowy peaks of Olympus,<br />
And the dark aerial Tartarus in the depths of the permeable Earth,<br />
And Eros, the fairest of the immortal Gods,<br />
That relaxes the strength of all, both gods and men,<br />
And subjugates the mind and the sage will in their breasts.<br />
From Chaos were generated Erebus and black Night,<br />
And from Night again were generated Ether and Day,<br />
Whom she brought forth, having conceived from the embrace of Erebus.<br />
And Earth first produced the starry Heaven equal to herself,<br />
That it might inclose all things around herself.</span></span></i></div><div align="right" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota";"><span style="color: #ffd966;"> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Theog</span>. v. 116.)</span></span></i></div><div align="right" style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: #ffd966;"><span class="fbphotocaptiontext"><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Within the Orphic mysteries, Nyx, a black-winged spirit rose from the emptiness of the Void of Khaos to lay the silver cosmic egg containing the golden winged spirit of love - Eros, also known as Phanes the Revealer, whose radiant beauty illuminated the earth. Nyx, primal Mother Night, within her dark starry realm also birthed the Fates, the Furies, the sperids, and Nemesis.</span></span><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota";"> To the ancients, Phanes thus represented the bearer of ‘Light’ of gnosis drawn from the dark void of ignorance. On the physical mundane realms, this was deemed visible in the light and power of the Sun.</span><span class="fbphotocaptiontext"><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (Shani Oates copyright - ‘Tubelo's Green Fire’)</span></span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota";"><span style="color: #ffd966;">In short, that to the power of the Sun is to be referred the control and supremacy of all things, is indicated by the theologists, who make it evident in the mysteries by the following short invocation:</span></span></i><br />
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And there was neither Earth, nor Air, nor Heaven: but in the boundless bosoms of Erebus.<br />
Night, with her black wings, first produced an aerial egg,<br />
From which, at the completed time, sprang forth the lovely Eros,<br />
Glittering with golden wings upon his back, like the swift whirlwinds.<br />
But embracing the dark-winged Chaos in the vast Tartarus.<br />
He begot our race (the birds),</span><a href="" name="fr_2"></a><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/af/af10.htm#note_2"><span style="color: #ffff66;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">2</span></span></a><span style="color: #ffd966;"> and first brought us to light.<br />
The race of the Immortals was not, till Eros mingled all things together;<br />
But when the elements were mixed one with another, Heaven was produced, and Ocean,<br />
And Earth, and the imperishable race of all the blessed Gods.</span></span></i></div><div align="right" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota";"><span style="color: #ffd966;"> </span></span></i></div><div align="right" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota";"><span style="color: #ffd966;">(<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Aristop. Aves.</span> 698.—<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Suid. v. Chaos.)</span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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And Cronus, who in the boundless tracts brought forth<br />
The Ether, and the sp lendid and glorious Eros of a two-fold nature,<br />
The illustrious father of night, existing from eternity.<br />
Whom men call Phanes, for he first appeared.<br />
I have sung the birth of powerful Brimo (Hecate), and the unhallowed deeds<br />
Of the earth-born (giants), who showered down from heaven<br />
Their blood, the lamentable seed of generation, from when sprung<br />
The race of mortals, who inhabit the boundless earth for ever.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iskoola Pota";"><span style="color: #ffd966;">First I sung the obscurity of ancient Chaos,<br />
How the Elements were ordered, and the Heaven reduced to bound;<br />
And the generation of the wide-bosomed Earth, and the depth of the Sea,<br />
And Eros (Love) the most ancient, self-perfecting, and of manifold design;<br />
How he generated all things, and parted them from one another.<br />
And I have sung of Cronus so miserably undone, and how the kingdom<br />
Of the blessed Immortals descended to the thunder-loving Zeus.</span></span><br />
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</div></div><div align="right" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #ffd966;"><span class="fbphotocaptiontext"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">(Algris Uzdavinys) </span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ffff66; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"></span></i></span></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-28751942127681228252011-07-10T13:30:00.000-07:002011-07-10T14:09:46.993-07:00The Garden of Eros<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7BrEAPvIlGtut8IQk7Q3nmvYAXjp6JflPXNN0BtaNXpfzS7VzhgJgTI0XNMAojGFehNOolMWW1Oxc0iC0ixrFSGwRiOJabsuyUpSxNs941GDq-lRAwpZyaiCXLt2-iDiXxrhxeU5p1Ry/s1600/DSC03010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; height: 116px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; width: 173px;"><img border="0" height="133" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7BrEAPvIlGtut8IQk7Q3nmvYAXjp6JflPXNN0BtaNXpfzS7VzhgJgTI0XNMAojGFehNOolMWW1Oxc0iC0ixrFSGwRiOJabsuyUpSxNs941GDq-lRAwpZyaiCXLt2-iDiXxrhxeU5p1Ry/s200/DSC03010.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOhzbGUSZpzyasOOY8SAxYEBq8gwTf8dTGKyoxe3tkf6hck4q_MM4qoNqRhmVvNNCiiu2PbvrhKYbmCiavX4AlVbwlUkQOqpTzSl_6MrXHF4KNoQxgsL0I3faIll_YMK5Jx2pcRgGbb_9/s1600/DSC02982%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOhzbGUSZpzyasOOY8SAxYEBq8gwTf8dTGKyoxe3tkf6hck4q_MM4qoNqRhmVvNNCiiu2PbvrhKYbmCiavX4AlVbwlUkQOqpTzSl_6MrXHF4KNoQxgsL0I3faIll_YMK5Jx2pcRgGbb_9/s400/DSC02982%25281%2529.JPG" width="172" /></a><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Garden Of Eros </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It is full summer now, the heart of June;<br />
Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir<br />
Upon the upland meadow where too soon<br />
Rich autumn time, the season's usurer,<br />
Will lend his hoarded gold to all the trees,<br />
And see his treasure scattered by the wild and spendthrift breeze.<br />
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Too soon indeed! yet here the daffodil,<br />
That love-child of the Spring, has lingered on<br />
To vex the rose with jealousy, and still<br />
The harebell spreads her azure pavilion,<br />
And like a strayed and wandering reveller<br />
Abandoned of its brothers, whom long since June's messenger</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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One pale narcissus loiters fearfully<br />
Close to a shadowy nook, where half afraid<br />
Of their own loveliness some violets lie<br />
That will not look the gold sun in the face<br />
For fear of too much splendour, - ah! methinks it is a place<br />
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Which should be trodden by Persephone<br />
When wearied of the flowerless fields of Dis!<br />
Or danced on by the lads of Arcady!<br />
The hidden secret of eternal bliss<br />
Known to the Grecian here a man might find,<br />
Ah! you and I may find it now if Love and Sleep be kind.<br />
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There are the flowers which mourning Herakles<br />
Strewed on the tomb of Hylas, columbine,<br />
Its white doves all a-flutter where the breeze<br />
Kissed them too harshly, the small celandine,<br />
That yellow-kirtled chorister of eve,<br />
And lilac lady's-smock, - but let them bloom alone, and leave</span><br />
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To sway its silent chimes, else must the bee,<br />
Its little bellringer, go seek instead<br />
Some other pleasaunce; the anemone<br />
That weeps at daybreak, like a silly girl<br />
Before her love, and hardly lets the butterflies unfurl<br />
<br />
Their painted wings beside it, - bid it pine<br />
In pale virginity; the winter snow<br />
Will suit it better than those lips of thine<br />
Whose fires would but scorch it, rather go<br />
And pluck that amorous flower which blooms alone,<br />
Fed by the pander wind with dust of kisses not its own.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The trumpet-mouths of red convolvulus<br />
So dear to maidens, creamy meadow-sweet<br />
Whiter than Juno's throat and odorous<br />
As all Arabia, hyacinths the feet<br />
Of Huntress Dian would be loth to mar<br />
For any dappled fawn, - pluck these, and those fond flowers which<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Fairer than what Queen Venus trod upon<br />
Beneath the pines of Ida, eucharis,<br />
That morning star which does not dread the sun,<br />
And budding marjoram which but to kiss<br />
Would sweeten Cytheraea's lips and make<br />
Adonis jealous, - these for thy head, - and for thy girdle take<br />
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Yon curving spray of purple clematis<br />
Whose gorgeous dye outflames the Tyrian King,<br />
And foxgloves with their nodding chalices,<br />
But that one narciss which the startled Spring<br />
Let from her kirtle fall when first she heard<br />
In her own woods the wild tempestuous song of summer's bird,<br />
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Ah! leave it for a subtle memory<br />
Of those sweet tremulous days of rain and sun,<br />
When April laughed between her tears to see<br />
The early primrose with shy footsteps run<br />
From the gnarled oak-tree roots till all the wold,<br />
Spite of its brown and trampled leaves, grew bright with shimmering<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Nay, pluck it too, it is not half so sweet<br />
As thou thyself, my soul's idolatry!<br />
And when thou art a-wearied at thy feet<br />
Shall oxlips weave their brightest tapestry,<br />
For thee the woodbine shall forget its pride<br />
And veil its tangled whorls, and thou shalt walk on daisies pied.<br />
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And I will cut a reed by yonder spring<br />
And make the wood-gods jealous, and old Pan<br />
Wonder what young intruder dares to sing<br />
In these still haunts, where never foot of man<br />
Should tread at evening, lest he chance to spy<br />
The marble limbs of Artemis and all her company.<br />
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And I will tell thee why the jacinth wears<br />
Such dread embroidery of dolorous moan,<br />
And why the hapless nightingale forbears<br />
To sing her song at noon, but weeps alone<br />
When the fleet swallow sleeps, and rich men feast,<br />
And why the laurel trembles when she sees the lightening east.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And I will sing how sad Proserpina<br />
Unto a grave and gloomy Lord was wed,<br />
And lure the silver-breasted Helena<br />
Back from the lotus meadows of the dead,<br />
So shalt thou see that awful loveliness<br />
For which two mighty Hosts met fearfully in war's abyss!<br />
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And then I'll pipe to thee that Grecian tale<br />
How Cynthia loves the lad Endymion,<br />
And hidden in a grey and misty veil<br />
Hies to the cliffs of Latmos once the Sun<br />
Leaps from his ocean bed in fruitless chase<br />
Of those pale flying feet which fade away in his embrace.<br />
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And if my flute can breathe sweet melody,<br />
We may behold Her face who long ago<br />
Dwelt among men by the AEgean sea,<br />
And whose sad house with pillaged portico<br />
And friezeless wall and columns toppled down<br />
Looms o'er the ruins of that fair and violet cinctured town.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Spirit of Beauty! tarry still awhile,<br />
They are not dead, thine ancient votaries;<br />
Some few there are to whom thy radiant smile<br />
Is better than a thousand victories,<br />
Though all the nobly slain of Waterloo<br />
Rise up in wrath against them! tarry still, there are a few<br />
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Who for thy sake would give their manlihood<br />
And consecrate their being; I at least<br />
Have done so, made thy lips my daily food,<br />
And in thy temples found a goodlier feast<br />
Than this starved age can give me, spite of all<br />
Its new-found creeds so sceptical and so dogmatical.<br />
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Here not Cephissos, not Ilissos flows,<br />
The woods of white Colonos are not here,<br />
On our bleak hills the olive never blows,<br />
No simple priest conducts his lowing steer<br />
Up the steep marble way, nor through the town<br />
Do laughing maidens bear to thee the crocus-flowered gown.<br />
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Yet tarry! for the boy who loved thee best,<br />
Whose very name should be a memory<br />
To make thee linger, sleeps in silent rest<br />
Beneath the Roman walls, and melody<br />
Still mourns her sweetest lyre; none can play<br />
The lute of Adonais: with his lips Song passed away.<br />
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One silver voice to sing his threnody,<br />
But ah! too soon of it we were bereft<br />
When on that riven night and stormy sea<br />
Panthea claimed her singer as her own,<br />
And slew the mouth that praised her; since which time we walk<br />
alone,<br />
<br />
Save for that fiery heart, that morning star<br />
Of re-arisen England, whose clear eye<br />
Saw from our tottering throne and waste of war<br />
The grand Greek limbs of young Democracy<br />
Rise mightily like Hesperus and bring<br />
The great Republic! him at least thy love hath taught to sing,<br />
<br />
And he hath been with thee at Thessaly,<br />
And seen white Atalanta fleet of foot<br />
In passionless and fierce virginity<br />
Hunting the tusked boar, his honied lute<br />
Hath pierced the cavern of the hollow hill,<br />
And Venus laughs to know one knee will bow before her still.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> And he hath kissed the lips of Proserpine,<br />
And sung the Galilaean's requiem,<br />
That wounded forehead dashed with blood and wine<br />
He hath discrowned, the Ancient Gods in him<br />
Have found their last, most ardent worshipper,<br />
And the new Sign grows grey and dim before its conqueror.<br />
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Spirit of Beauty! tarry with us still,<br />
It is not quenched the torch of poesy,<br />
The star that shook above the Eastern hill<br />
Holds unassailed its argent armoury<br />
From all the gathering gloom and fretful fight -<br />
O tarry with us still! for through the long and common night,<br />
<br />
Morris, our sweet and simple Chaucer's child,<br />
Dear heritor of Spenser's tuneful reed,<br />
With soft and sylvan pipe has oft beguiled<br />
The weary soul of man in troublous need,<br />
And from the far and flowerless fields of ice<br />
Has brought fair flowers to make an earthly paradise.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We know them all, Gudrun the strong men's bride,<br />
Aslaug and Olafson we know them all,<br />
How giant Grettir fought and Sigurd died,<br />
And what enchantment held the king in thrall<br />
When lonely Brynhild wrestled with the powers<br />
That war against all passion, ah! how oft through summer hours,<br />
<br />
Long listless summer hours when the noon<br />
Being enamoured of a damask rose<br />
Forgets to journey westward, till the moon<br />
The pale usurper of its tribute grows<br />
From a thin sickle to a silver shield<br />
And chides its loitering car - how oft, in some cool grassy field<br />
<br />
Far from the cricket-ground and noisy eight,<br />
At Bagley, where the rustling bluebells come<br />
Almost before the blackbird finds a mate<br />
And overstay the swallow, and the hum<br />
Of many murmuring bees flits through the leaves,<br />
Have I lain poring on the dreamy tales his fancy weaves,<br />
<br />
And through their unreal woes and mimic pain<br />
Wept for myself, and so was purified,<br />
And in their simple mirth grew glad again;<br />
For as I sailed upon that pictured tide<br />
The strength and splendour of the storm was mine<br />
Without the storm's red ruin, for the singer is divine;<br />
<br />
The little laugh of water falling down<br />
Is not so musical, the clammy gold<br />
Close hoarded in the tiny waxen town<br />
Has less of sweetness in it, and the old<br />
Half-withered reeds that waved in Arcady<br />
Touched by his lips break forth again to fresher harmony.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;"><em>Spirit of Beauty, tarry yet awhile!</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;"><em>Although the cheating merchants of the mart</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;"><em>With iron roads profane our lovely isle,</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;"><em>And break on whirling wheels the limbs of Art,</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;"><em>Ay! though the crowded factories beget</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;"><em>The blindworm Ignorance that slays the soul, O tarry yet!</em></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">For One at least there is, - He bears his name<br />
From Dante and the seraph Gabriel, -<br />
Whose double laurels burn with deathless flame<br />
To light thine altar; He too loves thee well,<br />
Who saw old Merlin lured in Vivien's snare,<br />
And the white feet of angels coming down the golden stair,<br />
<br />
Loves thee so well, that all the World for him<br />
A gorgeous-coloured vestiture must wear,<br />
And Sorrow take a purple diadem,<br />
Or else be no more Sorrow, and Despair<br />
Gild its own thorns, and Pain, like Adon, be<br />
Even in anguish beautiful; - such is the empery<br />
<br />
Which Painters hold, and such the heritage<br />
This gentle solemn Spirit doth possess,<br />
Being a better mirror of his age<br />
In all his pity, love, and weariness,<br />
Than those who can but copy common things,<br />
And leave the Soul unpainted with its mighty questionings.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">But they are few, and all romance has flown,<br />
And men can prophesy about the sun,<br />
And lecture on his arrows - how, alone,<br />
Through a waste void the soulless atoms run,<br />
How from each tree its weeping nymph has fled,<br />
And that no more 'mid English reeds a Naiad shows her head.<br />
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Methinks these new Actaeons boast too soon<br />
That they have spied on beauty; what if we<br />
Have analysed the rainbow, robbed the moon<br />
Of her most ancient, chastest mystery,<br />
Shall I, the last Endymion, lose all hope<br />
Because rude eyes peer at my mistress through a telescope!<br />
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What profit if this scientific age<br />
Burst through our gates with all its retinue<br />
Of modern miracles! Can it assuage<br />
One lover's breaking heart? what can it do<br />
To make one life more beautiful, one day<br />
More godlike in its period? but now the Age of Clay<br />
<br />
Returns in horrid cycle, and the earth<br />
Hath borne again a noisy progeny<br />
Of ignorant Titans, whose ungodly birth<br />
Hurls them against the august hierarchy<br />
Which sat upon Olympus; to the Dust<br />
They have appealed, and to that barren arbiter they must<br />
<br />
Repair for judgment; let them, if they can,<br />
From Natural Warfare and insensate Chance,<br />
Create the new Ideal rule for man!<br />
Methinks that was not my inheritance;<br />
For I was nurtured otherwise, my soul<br />
Passes from higher heights of life to a more supreme goal.<br />
<br />
Lo! while we spake the earth did turn away<br />
Her visage from the God, and Hecate's boat<br />
Rose silver-laden, till the jealous day<br />
Blew all its torches out: I did not note<br />
The waning hours, to young Endymions<br />
Time's palsied fingers count in vain his rosary of suns!<br />
<br />
Mark how the yellow iris wearily<br />
Leans back its throat, as though it would be kissed<br />
By its false chamberer, the dragon-fly,<br />
Who, like a blue vein on a girl's white wrist,<br />
Sleeps on that snowy primrose of the night,<br />
Which 'gins to flush with crimson shame, and die beneath the light.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Come let us go, against the pallid shield<br />
Of the wan sky the almond blossoms gleam,<br />
The corncrake nested in the unmown field<br />
Answers its mate, across the misty stream<br />
On fitful wing the startled curlews fly,<br />
And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh,<br />
<br />
Scatters the pearled dew from off the grass,<br />
In tremulous ecstasy to greet the sun,<br />
Who soon in gilded panoply will pass<br />
Forth from yon orange-curtained pavilion<br />
Hung in the burning east: see, the red rim<br />
O'ertops the expectant hills! it is the God! for love of him<br />
<br />
Already the shrill lark is out of sight,<br />
Flooding with waves of song this silent dell, -<br />
Ah! there is something more in that bird's flight<br />
Than could be tested in a crucible! -<br />
But the air freshens, let us go, why soon<br />
The woodmen will be here; how we have lived this night of June! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Monotype Corsiva;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">poem by Oscar Wilde</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">photo credits copyright of shani oates </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">except for 'Cupid's Hunting Fields' by E. Burne-Jones.</div></span></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-26954318353978526412011-06-27T05:15:00.000-07:002011-06-27T10:44:06.026-07:00Kali-Ma<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"> KALI-MA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="background-color: #7f6000;">Kali <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the divine qutub; erect upon the inert corpse of Shiva, She generates the impulse of life, of the manifest moment; Mother of the gods. Consort of Lord Shiva, who dances the Universe into being. Order from Chaos. </span></span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="background-color: #7f6000;">The universe descends from the eternal void, the infernal Absu. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></span></span></i></b><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">“Kali, also known as Kalika, is the Hindu goddess associated with eternal energy. The name Kali means "black" but has, by folk etymology, come to mean "force of time (<i>kala</i>)." Kali is today considered the goddess of time and change. Although sometimes presented as dark and violent, her earliest incarnation as a figure of annihilation still has some influence. More complex Tantric beliefs sometimes extend her role so far as to be the "ultimate reality" or Brahman. She is also revered as Bhavatarini (literally "redeemer of the universe").”<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjswYLU85lHXs0pn83Z57NEkAIyZMiLfrTISKhz6ZWt0viW1dgeXCfoEoM7M5mgfBYMWssC-3uVQZHe6vqDM5s9GUSHQZ9LHJF2AeNGGfpBTUhROHfuP_o_kMBB0vGEu40hwlpW1-EbJB/s1600/goddess_kali_ma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjswYLU85lHXs0pn83Z57NEkAIyZMiLfrTISKhz6ZWt0viW1dgeXCfoEoM7M5mgfBYMWssC-3uVQZHe6vqDM5s9GUSHQZ9LHJF2AeNGGfpBTUhROHfuP_o_kMBB0vGEu40hwlpW1-EbJB/s400/goddess_kali_ma.jpg" width="367" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Why is Mother Kali so radiantly black</span>?</span><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Because she is so powerful,<br />
that even mentioning her name destroys delusion.<br />
Because she is so beautiful,<br />
Lord Shiva, Conqueror of death,<br />
lies blissfully vanquished,<br />
beneath the red soled feet.<br />
There are subtle hues of blackness,<br />
But her bright complexion<br />
is the mystery that is utterly black,<br />
overwhelmingly black, wonderfully black.<br />
When she awakens in the lotus shrine<br />
within the heart's secret cave,<br />
her blackness becomes the mystic illumination<br />
that causes the twelve petal blossom there<br />
to glow more intensely than golden embers.<br />
Her lovely form is the incomparable<br />
Kali- black blacker than the King of Death.<br />
Whoever gazes upon this radiant blackness falls eternally in love<br />
and feels no attraction to any other,<br />
discovering everywhere only her.<br />
This poet sighs deeply,<br />
"Where is this brilliant lady, this black light beyond luminosity?<br />
Though I have never seen her, simply hearing her name,<br />
the mind becomes absorbed completely in her astonishing reality.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Om Kali! Om Kali! Om Kali!<span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">consecrate your being to pure love.<br />
Turn every thought to Goddess Tara.<br />
She will bear you tenderly across the raging sea<br />
of separation and individuality.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Be utterly dedicated to her reality.<br />
Cry aloud Ma Kali, Ma Kali.<br />
Know that she can clarify<br />
the inconceivable maze of relativity.<br />
To hope for assistance and guidance through this world<br />
from wealth, relatives, and religious rites<br />
provides no profound solution.<br />
Have you forgotten that everyone is lost?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Where are you now? Why are you travelling?<br />
This cosmos is the strange theatre where souls act,<br />
wearing various costumes and disguises.<br />
This intricate play of transparent energy<br />
is initiated, sustained, and dissolved by Kali,<br />
who is the dream power of Absolute Reality.<br />
At this very moment, you are resting<br />
on the vast lap of Mother's cosmic dream<br />
that you misperceive<br />
as the narrow prison of suffering.<br />
Why abandon the kingdom of awareness<br />
to obsession with self and disdain for others,<br />
to hollow passion and abject clinging?<br />
You are creating a disease without a remedy.<br />
The brief day of your earthly life is almost over.<br />
Meditate now on beautiful Black Tara.<br />
She is seated upon the jewel island of essence<br />
in the transparent sea of ultimacy.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgV8i5Hs3vWAWeCbSASixMH9OUZ8tG53mi60G3G6dy7tYo5aAdVqYfB8cwJDB368vbHS4EmWOqaTCGdaIMlDIuZT3-HxRM3nIwgrIaQU900DIJ7R6qbMVyZRS4z7-C7y67QokEdQywEhKF/s1600/2275223546_3ffee6f8ee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Tempus Sans ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">This poet sings drunkenly:<br />
"Tara! Tara! Tara!<br />
Your name is ambrosia.<br />
May all beings enter the secret sanctuary<br />
through this name,<br />
tasting your unique sweetness,<br />
self-luminous awareness."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The songs I know that king's wives know not,</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Nor men that are sons of me;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The first is called help, and help it can bring thee</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">In sorrow and pain and sickness.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A second I know, that men shall need</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Who leechcraft long to use.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">. . . . . . . . . . . . .</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">. . . . . . . . . .</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A third I know, if great is my need</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Of fetters to hold my foe;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Blunt do I make mine enemy's blade,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Nor bites his sword or staff.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A fourth I know, if men shall fasten</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Bonds to my bended legs;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So great is the charm that forth I may go,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The fetters spring from my feet,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Broken the bonds from my hands.</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTJ1mt7yvpnZSmeGLiJlj1edkilDrigNEKTegTp1wbTnYIBp9TffMBboOhQXGxRLWcxY81JUVajJ7ApnWtDf_3xOps9IVmj9D8eyQYRZe2I1k3xZyDqSBZX1CaDCwy1dcGJ9Z5XYztGrHo/s1600/freya.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTJ1mt7yvpnZSmeGLiJlj1edkilDrigNEKTegTp1wbTnYIBp9TffMBboOhQXGxRLWcxY81JUVajJ7ApnWtDf_3xOps9IVmj9D8eyQYRZe2I1k3xZyDqSBZX1CaDCwy1dcGJ9Z5XYztGrHo/s1600/freya.jpg" t8="true" /></a></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A fifth I know, if I see from afar</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">An arrow fly 'gainst the folk;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">If flies not so swift that I stop it not,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">If ever my eyes behold it.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A sixth I know, if harm one seeks</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">With a sapling's roots to send me;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The hero himself who wreaks his hate</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Shall taste the ill ere I.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A seventh I know, if I see in flames</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The hall o'er my comrades' heads;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It burns not so wide that I will not quench it,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">I know that song to sing.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">An eighth I know, that is to all</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Of greatest good to learn;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">When hatred grows among heroes' sons,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">I soon can set it right.</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5sho7DMBKqmruRAb2CaSZKjmcWrfplWec7O3ifiWLDG6N6m9fpMQ-9gr001huSQ8hGb8BNmfBCGwWYAgEdW05q4O6mSI1bmPDYFu8CQynue85JdZI_4bY9eghEQusiQ29eCyItVG_ZZoG/s1600/frigg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5sho7DMBKqmruRAb2CaSZKjmcWrfplWec7O3ifiWLDG6N6m9fpMQ-9gr001huSQ8hGb8BNmfBCGwWYAgEdW05q4O6mSI1bmPDYFu8CQynue85JdZI_4bY9eghEQusiQ29eCyItVG_ZZoG/s1600/frigg.jpg" t8="true" /></a></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A ninth I know, if need there comes</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">To shelter my ship on the flood;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The wind I calm upon the waves,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And the sea I put to sleep.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A tenth I know, what time I see</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">House-riders flying on high;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So can I work that wildly they go,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Showing their true shapes,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Hence to their own homes.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">An eleventh I know, if needs I must lead</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">To the fight my long-loved friends;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">I sing in the shields, and in strength they go</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Whole to the field of fight,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Whole from the field of fight,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And whole they come thence home.</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A twelfth I know, if high on a tree</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">I see a hanged man swing;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So do I write and colour the runes</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">That forth he fares,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And to me talks.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A thirteenth I know, if a thane full young</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">With water I sprinkle well;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">He shall not fall, though he fares mid the host,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Nor sink beneath the swords.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A fourteenth I know, if fain I would name</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">To men the mighty gods;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">All know I well of the gods and elves,--</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Few be the fools know this.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A fifteenth I know, that before the doors</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Of Delling sang Thjothrorir the dwarf;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Might he sang for the gods, and glory for elves,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And wisdom for Hroptatyr wise.</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVckwADpfq0OBomjAi_GQXTHGs9sFSsfMibgvLu6D5j_6EaJU_mVqudlxE-mx23eJ0ifDNMoUZhD0CnVv4efbUA985PJm2bt2nN9ABdyiuyajwjIRg_NebWmPSkVPVf3XAxlxJHEVS8a4c/s1600/freya.jpg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVckwADpfq0OBomjAi_GQXTHGs9sFSsfMibgvLu6D5j_6EaJU_mVqudlxE-mx23eJ0ifDNMoUZhD0CnVv4efbUA985PJm2bt2nN9ABdyiuyajwjIRg_NebWmPSkVPVf3XAxlxJHEVS8a4c/s320/freya.jpg2.jpg" t8="true" width="187" /></a></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A sixteenth I know, if I seek delight</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">To win from a maiden wise;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The mind I turn of the white-armed maid,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And thus change all her thoughts.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A seventeenth I know, so that seldom shall go</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">A maiden young from me;</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">. . . . . . . . .</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">An eighteenth I know, that ne'er will I tell</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">To maiden or wife of man,--</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The best is what none but one's self doth know,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So comes the end of the songs,--</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Save only to her in whose arms I lie,</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Or else my sister is.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxNdNIuqh5mfmXckGWnw_rm-aRBQR0NCvezOR3xzK33Rw7ifbbjIw1_31wPK1R4zg8o-T09L_e7oc4TaDc1oVhjpeprkui0syYY2GUR2E3nlRKllbNNKJTsxSOPMTmopQwASyMujMNomd/s1600/imagesCA7T82Z4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxNdNIuqh5mfmXckGWnw_rm-aRBQR0NCvezOR3xzK33Rw7ifbbjIw1_31wPK1R4zg8o-T09L_e7oc4TaDc1oVhjpeprkui0syYY2GUR2E3nlRKllbNNKJTsxSOPMTmopQwASyMujMNomd/s1600/imagesCA7T82Z4.jpg" t8="true" /></a></span></i></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Images: </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.norsegods.com/">http://www.norsegods.com/</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.nuidil.coom/">http://www.nuidil.coom/</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.polarbearstale.blogspot.com/">http://www.polarbearstale.blogspot.com/</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.runes-for-health-wealth-love-now.com/">http://www.runes-for-health-wealth-love-now.com/</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-48223492359868059732011-06-01T10:18:00.000-07:002011-06-01T10:18:55.651-07:00Pale Shadows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I [My Soul] I summon to the winding ancient stair;<br />
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,<br />
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,<br />
Upon the breathless starlit air,<br />
'Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;<br />
Fix every wandering thought upon<br />
That quarter where all thought is done:<span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Who can distinguish darkness from the soul</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(1)</span></span></i></div><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtCkDCr3YsPJnNpj4VxTzVOKwUIj2P5Sisi3RgCRuoLIpsJRi1QICHCVX6Dvh8fz38CMVpNg4LLk2wQEFq3iMWRAxC9sQDKx7v_RqPP0uvv63Pg_4tmLpUFEp_E6low0hmWU1zNps-E2m/s400/31297_397430658010_620293010_3913678_1421346_n.jpg" t8="true" width="386" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"> </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I[My Self]. The consecrates blade upon my knees<br />
Is Sato's ancient blade, still as it was,<br />
Still razor-keen, still like a looking-glass<br />
Unspotted by the centuries;<br />
That flowering, silken, old embroidery, torn<br />
From some court-lady's dress and round<br />
The wooden scabbard bound and wound<br />
Can, tattered, still protect, faded adorn.</span></i></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(2)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNM699j-CmzEFnyLXBIjAu358g6LecjTfV-yab9a59KGGME43TRJr99Js6iNrN0hBzQ7vv8ObZNSNKct_3_yyiYUdtYCEQwKpYR-aKac3klYBUDXpsbWqKsRI_4vKGuPfTFfs4VU-pEuxr/s1600/31297_397607653010_620293010_3917085_3636778_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNM699j-CmzEFnyLXBIjAu358g6LecjTfV-yab9a59KGGME43TRJr99Js6iNrN0hBzQ7vv8ObZNSNKct_3_yyiYUdtYCEQwKpYR-aKac3klYBUDXpsbWqKsRI_4vKGuPfTFfs4VU-pEuxr/s400/31297_397607653010_620293010_3917085_3636778_n.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>I[My Soul.] Why should the imagination of a man<br />
Long past his prime remember things that are<br />
Emblematical of love and war?<br />
Think of ancestral night that can,<br />
If but imagination scorn the earth<br />
And intellect is wandering<br />
To this and that and t'other thing,<br />
Deliver from the crime of death and birth.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>(3)</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGI8bTXyMrl1IHXZI_XyogzRfREKYqb8Ba4kGR5QDTB9pKlU5UCL0Ws-94f1phyYMJObI4Ip2GzFTuO8tBu7TkcDZYaWPmQLW3TSYxchHj7IH6NmdKr5wZPDWK-Gth6bRzSq12nJ-_NlpN/s1600/31297_397432033010_620293010_3913689_4980044_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGI8bTXyMrl1IHXZI_XyogzRfREKYqb8Ba4kGR5QDTB9pKlU5UCL0Ws-94f1phyYMJObI4Ip2GzFTuO8tBu7TkcDZYaWPmQLW3TSYxchHj7IH6NmdKr5wZPDWK-Gth6bRzSq12nJ-_NlpN/s400/31297_397432033010_620293010_3913689_4980044_n.jpg" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em></em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em></em></span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I [My self.] Montashigi, third of his family, fashioned it<br />
Five hundred years ago, about it lie<br />
Flowers from I know not what embroidery --<br />
Heart's purple -- and all these I set<br />
For emblems of the day against the tower<br />
Emblematical of the night,<br />
And claim as by a soldier's right<br />
A charter to commit the crime once more.</span></i></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(4)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSl5LHJwQj87211phkFxjzjpF4gsIGa8oBGIJRSewpzGyWPo2g9mBe126bIGIUNM3T7YmCT3QXEB1u4NKuDe9ijuRqBSSWUhVu0vcjqBO3H0IsYIDZlBTmthu0OTtrWBhJizfaOkqWnsso/s1600/31297_397431143010_620293010_3913682_6428739_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSl5LHJwQj87211phkFxjzjpF4gsIGa8oBGIJRSewpzGyWPo2g9mBe126bIGIUNM3T7YmCT3QXEB1u4NKuDe9ijuRqBSSWUhVu0vcjqBO3H0IsYIDZlBTmthu0OTtrWBhJizfaOkqWnsso/s400/31297_397431143010_620293010_3913682_6428739_n.jpg" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></div><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em></em></span> <span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em></em></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>I [My Soul.] Such fullness in that quarter overflows<br />
And falls into the basin of the mind<br />
That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind,<br />
For intellect no longer knows<br />
I{Is} from the I{Ought,} or I{knower} from the I{Known -- }<br />
That is to say, ascends to Heaven;<br />
Only the dead can be forgiven;<br />
But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span> <span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>I [My Self.] A living man is blind and drinks his drop.<br />
What matter if the ditches are impure?<br />
What matter if I live it all once more?<br />
Endure that toil of growing up;<br />
The ignominy of boyhood; the distress<br />
Of boyhood changing into man;<br />
The unfinished man and his pain<br />
Brought face to face with his own clumsiness;<br />
The finished man among his enemies? --<br />
How in the name of Heaven can he escape<br />
That defiling and disfigured shape<br />
The mirror of malicious eyes<br />
Casts upon his eyes until at last<br />
He thinks that shape must be his shape?<br />
And what's the good of an escape<br />
If honour find him in the wintry blast?<br />
I am content to live it all again<br />
And yet again, if it be life to pitch<br />
Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,<br />
A blind man battering blind men;<br />
Or into that most fecund ditch of all,<br />
The folly that man does<br />
Or must suffer, if he woos<br />
A proud woman not kindred of his soul.<br />
I am content to follow to its source<br />
Every event in action or in thought;<br />
Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!<br />
When such as I cast out remorse<br />
So great a sweetness flows into the breast<br />
We must laugh and we must sing,<br />
We are blest by everything,</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>Everything we look upon is blessed.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">ANNO MUNDI</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Can you see me, are you near me?<br />
Can you hear me crying out for life?<br />
Can you tell me, where's the glory?<br />
Ride the days and sail the nights<br />
When it's over you'll find the answer<br />
Running in the whispering rain<br />
Anno Mundi? Can you wonder!<br />
Truth or thunder, life or blame<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Does it make you laugh, put a smile on your face?<br />
Do you need a mirror, do you see it well?<br />
Does the hand of God still toll the bell?<br />
There are people laughing<br />
They're all laughing at you<br />
If only they could see what you're saying is true<br />
Still generals fighting, making war on the world<br />
Don't they know, don't they know?<br />
No, no, no<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXKI1QINCmr6o_NcBJxipD-GilhtWwVHx_xLpVNXZsZMKWGAWHjqKWX-oKud4UKNOWQ53x8cIvXJbPEs0rMXL-Lj89a9qKNC0EJoPyhoCYQBr1rHTkLyqmiHcMB9-02DTZM3gvQ-kMy3s2/s1600/Medieval_War_of_the_Roses.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The wind in the night blows cold<br />
Your eyes are burning<br />
As the sands of our time grow old<br />
Anno Mundi<br />
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Do you follow the path that so many tread?<br />
Are you among the blind so easily lead?<br />
Do you join the war, do you fight for the cause?<br />
Depend on another to fight it alone<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The wind in the night blows cold<br />
Your eyes are burning<br />
As the sands of our time grow old<br />
Anno Mundi<br />
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Can you see me now, can you hear me now?<br />
Can you tell me where's the glory?<br />
Ride the days and sail the nights</span></div><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">When it's over, you'll find the answer<br />
running in the rain<br />
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There's a hope that's growing and a vision too<br />
All those angry hearts now reach out for you<br />
Do you look to the dawn, see a new day begun?<br />
No longer the fool, the vision is done.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAozJ7qQjMH5A4l4ByOmlGGkWQ4RzKtjeqCDbHQKybiXh_Uby6XiQ_pztprHM24PbRKYpXk8pZ15xgzLFoR4s2BNC4fVILuGyhQ5mM3g9oVaWKMfXh7G7aC-5SaDuKpdat0n43dIbITpCn/s400/untitled.bmp" width="308" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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The dreams you had were once of love and being proud<br />
Misty horizons block your vision of the world<br />
But the raven's eyes will show you all you need to know<br />
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The land you loved is now so barren and so cold<br />
The name of God rings out so high in your soul<br />
This time the masters will lead us by the sword<br />
And should we fail then all prevails in Odin's court <br />
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A stately pleasure-dome decree:<br />
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran<br />
Through caverns measureless to man<br />
Down to a sunless sea.</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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With walls and towers were girdled round:<br />
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,<br />
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;<br />
And here were forests ancient as the hills,<br />
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.</em></strong></span></div><br />
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Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!<br />
A savage place! as holy and enchanted<br />
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted<br />
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!<br />
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,<br />
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,<br />
A mighty fountain momently was forced:</em></strong></span></div><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><strong><em></em></strong></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e69138;">And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e69138;">It flung up momently the sacred river.</span></div><br />
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Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,<br />
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,<br />
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:<br />
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far<br />
Ancestral voices prophesying war!</em></strong></span></div><div align="right" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnJxDn7KDGbWPs7K8TcqANr14wq1yM1EqZBrY_u7vHiL9WzgDjAfIebxXBjalUXotu5n68tMoaj8sLv4ZcinAB4JzGCI5lioXq5_TBhT__ZDsVztBRBeh2lqlqPy6UFcnB3ECLKsKo18kB/s1600/274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnJxDn7KDGbWPs7K8TcqANr14wq1yM1EqZBrY_u7vHiL9WzgDjAfIebxXBjalUXotu5n68tMoaj8sLv4ZcinAB4JzGCI5lioXq5_TBhT__ZDsVztBRBeh2lqlqPy6UFcnB3ECLKsKo18kB/s320/274.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><strong><em>The shadow of the dome of pleasure<br />
Floated midway on the waves;<br />
Where was heard the mingled measure<br />
From the fountain and the caves.<br />
It was a miracle of rare device,<br />
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEVqdvNvjFoevEDIDZQ6t5EPBnPW0I20JLXd7lYePYoCLD0o9q1KEGDzPtITLif8MfbGK2XAv6j8xeBuLBbRKmG8S2ynwNQ3Ok4YYoGbvfOTz6jtlThxwQoE8_B-_WBeBss7rtfekdTn_M/s1600/DSC02594%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEVqdvNvjFoevEDIDZQ6t5EPBnPW0I20JLXd7lYePYoCLD0o9q1KEGDzPtITLif8MfbGK2XAv6j8xeBuLBbRKmG8S2ynwNQ3Ok4YYoGbvfOTz6jtlThxwQoE8_B-_WBeBss7rtfekdTn_M/s320/DSC02594%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><strong><em>A damsel with a dulcimer<br />
In a vision once I saw:<br />
It was an Abyssinian maid,<br />
And on her dulcimer she played,<br />
Singing of Mount Abora.<br />
Could I revive within me<br />
Her symphony and song,<br />
To such a deep delight 'twould win me<br />
That with music loud and long<br />
I would build that dome in air,<br />
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!</em></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
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And all should cry, Beware! Beware!</em></strong></span></span><br />
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Weave a circle round him thrice,<br />
And close your eyes with holy dread, </span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #948a54; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">For he on honey-dew hath fed<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9nwG1aOS73TSgAY-qmPcqHYiT90FKQ0C5lf76E6wb5PdRwAWPwfRXzVvoE4hitUG96n8Y5BO8MQ2c3cZop7p4uco1WPtD4xi3tp1OwAEZWJgdPYSnrgroDdsKOWWbuRjYm_584Ew25h0/s1600/309.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-9621999189157860312011-05-03T00:39:00.000-07:002011-05-03T00:39:09.727-07:00Of Mirth and Morris Men.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Just for something utterly different and very tongue in cheek, here are excerpts from a fabulous website about local 'Morris Traditions':</span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">English "morris" dancing is the earliest known example of biological warfare. Mediaeval documents recently discovered by historians indicate that villagers who showed the early symptoms of bubonic plague were dressed in colourful outlandish costumes with bells tied to their legs and sent to neighbouring hamlets to perform their macabre ritual. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZ766_oWVBOlCh8Og1nMASO-KT95U577_oN7YoJE8N2gAxfiSPYQZx7iIRf7GaCu31jDT42S1lbfIny_J8buWrd21jH2Y1TPNfBBwogpuc87TEDdrNwk16uRnet1-0ArO4riczIcYwGo1/s1600/DSC02767.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZ766_oWVBOlCh8Og1nMASO-KT95U577_oN7YoJE8N2gAxfiSPYQZx7iIRf7GaCu31jDT42S1lbfIny_J8buWrd21jH2Y1TPNfBBwogpuc87TEDdrNwk16uRnet1-0ArO4riczIcYwGo1/s320/DSC02767.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #e69138;">It is quite remarkable to note that, although little or no knowledge of germs or viral infection was existent at the time, the fact that waving handkerchiefs full of plague infested mucus in the vicinity of one's enemies had a detrimental effect was commonly known, particularly in the south of England. </span></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">"They did comme in garish clothe wythe bells about their legges and brandishinge shorte poles of wudde which they did hitte together in a devilishe danse, each holdinge a fylthie ragge soaked all in snotte. Soone after this the plague was upon us. They did also a-molly their cludges in the ftreete, gruntinge lyke pygges" </span></span></i></div><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;"> It would also seem that this was used as a convenient way of ridding the community of its worst musicians. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;"> "<em>They did also bringe wythe them uglie daemons from the underworlde who did make a foule dinne upon pypes, fidils and nakers and did take muche ale. These wretched beaftes were not fytte to danse." </em></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Research by scientists has shown that the average career of a morris dancer would have lasted about two weeks, which would account for the musical and terpsichorean simplicity of the "performance" and the pitifully low level of skill involved, which is still in evidence today in some areas, faithfully reproduced. </span></span></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJP3nYw285kbVToUrP_wRFZpKvHgud3VSM7T8b6FWCzt9VF2tE1laivj9tXTfd_q-_-C7XWTJZsU-RsnmOgUStlCGiGvEui6o1qgk7GoBAOSD_scDYBtbRyjrwkeAgk6H0WSrNj4kd28X/s1600/DSC02799.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><img border="0" height="288" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJP3nYw285kbVToUrP_wRFZpKvHgud3VSM7T8b6FWCzt9VF2tE1laivj9tXTfd_q-_-C7XWTJZsU-RsnmOgUStlCGiGvEui6o1qgk7GoBAOSD_scDYBtbRyjrwkeAgk6H0WSrNj4kd28X/s320/DSC02799.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><u><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black;">Thine Unmollied Cludge is like a May Morning</span></span></u><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #e69138;"> <br />
</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thine unmollied cludge is like a May morning,</span></span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #e69138;"> </span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But a cludge so neglected,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Would ne'er be selected,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To nibble, except by a few.</span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The mould verily sparkleth like dew,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: black;">Thine unmollied cludge doth need a good forking</span>,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But ne'er could I fork such a thing,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Though you may have forgotten,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The stench is so rotten,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Forsooth! It hath withered my string.</span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA60oEQ9-qD4hnN72bXrbLUGA8OavTe17JOkHMKfAtyZcOwzkZ-CghyhOa7rp3L6xTZqIimqvDHteiO22My5AYddcN6AeWLq1tys3gragGi2yb-Gl2FzEOHBjSms5Wq4_U0gu8yHnXfimZ/s1600/DSC02808.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA60oEQ9-qD4hnN72bXrbLUGA8OavTe17JOkHMKfAtyZcOwzkZ-CghyhOa7rp3L6xTZqIimqvDHteiO22My5AYddcN6AeWLq1tys3gragGi2yb-Gl2FzEOHBjSms5Wq4_U0gu8yHnXfimZ/s320/DSC02808.JPG" width="195" /></span></a><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: black;">Thine unmollied cludge dear should ne'er be unleashed</span>,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On good gentlefolk such as I,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Its malodorous bent,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Could ne'er be heaven sent,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And it bringeth a tear to the eye.</span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Cludge mollying in the Middle Ages</span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;"> The Ancient Guild of Cludge Molliers was formed in 1404 at a time when, to molly one's own cludge, particularly in public, had become so socially unacceptable that the perpetrators became outcasts in their own communities, sometimes even to the point of joining the village morris dancers in their depraved activities. This was mainly due to the puritanical influence of the church on society, which could account for the noticeable lack of biblical references to the mollying of cludges after about 1356. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Consequently, by the late 14th century it had become necessary for the outlawed practice to be carried out covertly by skilled, professional cludge molliers who usually preferred to work under cover of darkness, often leading a double life to avoid detection. Indeed, the church was so effective in its effort to stamp out cludge mollying, it is virtually impossible to find any written reference to either cludges, or the general act of mollying in its original sense today, except in the word "mollycoddle". </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Obviously to coddle one's cludge is very different to actually mollying it, especially in public, and the church, for all its faults, recognised this. It has been suggested by some historians that a certain amount of clandestine coddling was popular among the clergy at that time, and so would consequently have been viewed with somewhat more lenience than outright mollying. However, it should be noted that the word has now completely lost its original meaning, no doubt in part due to religious zealots misusing it loudly from the pulpit, as with the word "molly" itself, which had taken on a completely different meaning by the early 18th century with which we are not here concerned.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black;">My Johnny's gone a-mollying oh, across the raging sea,</span></span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My heart it is full sore because he'll not be back for tea,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My cludge it yearns for Johnny's fork, and more so for his string,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But my Johnny's gone a-mollying oh, and won't be back 'til Spring.</span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He'll molly here, he'll molly there, where they can't understand us,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My Johnny's gone to molly hard, the cludges o'er in Flanders,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ere he returns, one distant day, his kith and kin to fettle,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Be sure, I'll bid him welcome home, and then put on the kettle.</span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Beneath a bough, somewhere in France, my Johnny mollies gaily,</span></span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #e69138;"> </span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To see my Johnny wield his fork is wond'rous to behold,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But my own dear cludge, though e'er so pale, is often thick with mould.</span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I wish I were a foreign cludge, and then I'd see him daily,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheAsdS3CYMOcvfV6LDs1FynG_oIL4sDcbukXNbE5L9zjWUsE1J_8xhMLFV94xRTvbG0RWy6x06mfa44MN7TB_-iddOByppm_ssU_3RxzavwEDjvCTBzoQHMq7qJ0i5Cb9bP6gsGIA-8moT/s1600/DSC02790.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; 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mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But how would dearest Johnny know that soaring bird was I?,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My cludge will wait, and so must I, despite the grief and pain,</span></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #330100; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For my Johnny's gone a-mollying oh, across the raging main.</span><span style="color: #e3ffd4; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; 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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">In order to preserve what was by then a dying skill, and maintain the necessary secrecy to appease the church, yet keep the public's cludges well mollied, the Guild of Cludge Molliers came into existence. Local legend has it that the formative gatherings were held in the back room of "Ye Forke and Twine", a busy ale house in late 14th century Brampton on the site of which now stands "O' Clackerty's Bar", quite close to the original Brampton castle by the sparkling river Hipper. Naturally, little is known of the actual membership, save for rumour and speculation, but evidence of some structure of apprenticeship can be found in </span><a href="http://www.brampton-bugle.co.uk/jermarblunt.html"><span style="color: #e69138;">J. M. Blunt's "Folke Songes of Olde Englande"</span></a><span style="color: #e69138;"> published in 1892. The only known reference to female cludge mollying is in the relatively unknown song, "</span><a href="http://www.brampton-bugle.co.uk/molcludamfair.html"><span style="color: #e69138;">Come Molly my Cludge, Oh Damsel Fair</span></a><span style="color: #e69138;">", but this is generally regarded by scholars as little more than a perverse fantasy, or at best, the mediaeval idea of comedy. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The practice has now of course completely died out in the U.K. (along with life-size corn dollies) since the invention of modern string, and more recently the steam engine. However, it is rumoured that mollying still continues in parts of Europe, albeit in a somewhat more symbolic fashion than hitherto, due to the lack of cludges, but nonetheless poignantly. The northern French town of Couilles to this day boasts an imposing granite monument to "Les Molliers de la Clourge" in the centre of its picturesque market place. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">text courtesy of:</span><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.brampton-bugle.co.uk/history.html#folksongs">http://www.brampton-bugle.co.uk/history.html#folksongs</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">photo credits copyright of shani oates</span></span></div></span><span style="color: #e69138;"> </span>Shanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09609876199053861592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835511346684126352.post-62909514850636952132011-04-27T00:36:00.000-07:002011-04-27T00:36:17.510-07:00May-hem!!!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="" name="Madness"></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;">May-hem!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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Come were but the Spring,<br />
I would go to a covert<br />
Where the birds sing;<br />
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Where in the whitethorn<br />
Singeth a thrush,<br />
And a robin sings<br />
In the holly-bush.<br />
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Full of fresh scents<br />
Are the budding boughs<br />
Arching high over<br />
A cool green house:<br />
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Full of sweet scents,<br />
And whispering air<br />
Which sayeth softly:<br />
We spread no snare;<br />
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Here dwell in safety,<br />
Here dwell alone,<br />
With a clear stream<br />
And a mossy stone.<br />
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Here the sun shineth<br />
Most shadily;<br />
Here is heard an echo<br />
Of the far sea,<br />
Though far off it be."<br />
- Christina Rossetti, <i>Spring Quiet</i> </span></div><br />
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<span style="color: #c4bc96; font-family: "Aparajita", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;">"Formerly, when writing in honour of Dionysos they competed with these [compositions], which also used to be called satyrika. But later on, having progressed to writing tragedies, they turned gradually to myths and historical subjects, no longer with Dionysos in mind. Hence they also exclaimed this [the proverb 'nothing to do with Dionysos']. And Khamaileon] in On Thespis relates similar things." <em><span class="quoteoth1">- Suidas s.v. Ouden pros ton Dionyson</span></em></span><br />
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