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

[C. G. Estabrook]

We're both right (rare as that is)...


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