On Wed, 5 May 2004 04:58:53 +1000, Andrew Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wish I had written this, > But its ok that someone did, > and I can go outside and watch it. > > Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea, > Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine > In even monochrome and curving line > Of imperturbable serenity. > > How shall I link such sun-cast symmetry > With the torn troubled form I know as thine, > That profile, placid as a brow divine, > With continents of moil and misery? > > And can immense Mortality but throw > So small a shade, and Heaven's high human scheme > Be hemmed within the coasts yon arc implies? > > Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show, > Nation at war with nation, brains that teem, > Heroes, and women fairer than the skies? > > Thanks to Thomas Hardy
"I cannot sleep For the blaze of the full moon. I thought I heard here and there A voice calling. Hopelessly I answer "Yes.? To the empty air." Tzu Yeh Chinese- possibly 3rd century CE
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