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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