[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Watch AOTA when the hurlyburly's done...

[John W.]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:11 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

       A CONCLUDING COMMENT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN
>        (from sixteenth-century poet Edward de Vere)
>
>        You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
>        As if you were dismayed: be cheerful, sir.
>        Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
>        As I foretold you, were all spirits and
>        Are melted into air, into thin air:
>        And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
>        The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
>        The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
>        Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
>        And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
>        Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
>        As dreams are made on, and our little life
>        Is rounded with a sleep...
>

What an uneducated fool I am!  All these years I thought that these lines
were spoken by Prospero in Shakespeare's "The Tempest"!  :-(
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