[Peace-discuss] karen medina has key to McKinley for AWARE meetings over winter break

[C. G. Estabrook]

This is what Dante called /il gran rifiuto/ - the resignation of the papacy!

The author is an interesting 19th-century American poet who graduated from Yale 
at the outset of the civil war; he was "class poet." How did he avoid the war? 
Like Twain, he went West to seek his fortune.  After the war, he came back and 
entered Harvard Divinity School in 1867 but then went to New York to work on a 
newspaper. He was a high school teacher and professor of English literature at 
the University of California. His best-known poem is the long (too long) "The 
Venus of Milo" (1883), part of a farewell tribute to his California friends.

On 12/13/10 4:47 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
>  Carl wrote: > The keys to the kingdom, eh? I think that makes you
>  pope.
>
>  T'is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away.
>
>  These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without
>  end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings
>  of a friend.
>
>  No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as
>  wool;
>
>  The ill-timed truth we might have kept-- Who knows how sharp it
>  pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say-- Who knows how
>  grandly it had rung!
>
>  Be merciful to me, a fool!
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