[LUTE] Re: What If A Day lyrics

2015-09-11 Thread howard posner
> On Sep 10, 2015, at 5:43 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote: > > Thanks, all. I get the picture, and it's what I was thinking, but it > could be clearer! > Rob Of course it could be clearer; it’s poetry. "‘the earth is tiny in the heavens, and a man is tiny compared to the earth, so get over y

[LUTE] Re: What If A Day lyrics

2015-09-11 Thread Caroline Usher
Subject: [LUTE] Re: What If A Day lyrics I read it as a ‘the earth is tiny in the heavens, and a man is tiny compared to the earth, so get over yourself’ type of statement… Jim > On 10 Sep 2015, at 10:28, Rob MacKillop wrote: > > Does anyone have any idea what the following excerpt

[LUTE] Re: What If A Day lyrics

2015-09-10 Thread Rob MacKillop
Thanks, all. I get the picture, and it's what I was thinking, but it could be clearer! Rob On 10 September 2015 at 13:15, Ron Andrico <[1]praelu...@hotmail.com> wrote: The text seems to play upon the correspondence of macrocosm / microcosm, a topic much discussed in Eli

[LUTE] Re: What If A Day lyrics

2015-09-10 Thread Mathias.Roesel
non native speaker here, but I seem to understand it asking the lines of Psam 8: What is man, that thou thinkest about him, what is the son of man that thou helpest him __ Gesendet mit der [1]Telekom Mail App fA 1/4r

[LUTE] Re: What If A Day lyrics

2015-09-10 Thread Jim Dunn
I read it as a ‘the earth is tiny in the heavens, and a man is tiny compared to the earth, so get over yourself’ type of statement… Jim > On 10 Sep 2015, at 10:28, Rob MacKillop wrote: > > Does anyone have any idea what the following excerpt from What If A Day Or A > Month Or A Year means?