[Peace-discuss] sheesh / peace-discuss is addictive
E.Wayne Johnson
ewj at pigs.ag
Mon Oct 18 01:35:24 CDT 2010
"Do I dare to eat a peach?"
... dare to Im-Peach?
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From: Karen Medina
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Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] sheesh / peace-discuss is addictive
Not sure why Carl sent this, but here's the full poem... and it looks interesting
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
Would it have been worth while, 90
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
“That is not what I meant at all.
That is not it, at all.”
I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 85
“That is not what I meant at all.
That is not it, at all.”
That poem and much more make me think of another poem... as with the lines above, I also took more than a few liberties with the lines below:
'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.
"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!
"For our blunders -- oh, in shame
Before the eyes of heaven we fall;
Our faults no tenderness should ask.
The chastening stripes must cleanse them all.
The jester's pleading voice arose:
"O Lord,Be merciful to me, a fool!
The king walked apart and murmured low:
"Be merciful to me, a fool!"
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