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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (48014)	7/30/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Neo, I like the poem, but I would prefer that you didn't post it in bold. It's hard for me to read, my eyesight isn't all that good anymore. I've read studies that show that the most readable type is 12 point serif type like Baskerville, Garamond, or Times Roman, which is, oddly enough, pretty much what they use in books. Maybe I am just lazy.

To: Neocon who wrote (48014)	7/30/1999 9:11:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Here's another jeer at death, one of several from Dylan Thomas. This one commemorates a small victim of the London blitz. Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Never until the mankind making Bird beast and flower Fathering and all humbling darkness Tells with silence the last light breaking And the still hour Is come of the sea tumbling in harness. And I must enter again the round Zion of the water bowl And the synagogue of the ear of corn Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound Or sow my salt seed In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn. The majesty and burning of the child's death, I shall not murder The mankind of her going with a grave truth Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath With any further Elegy of innocence and youth. Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter, Robed in the long friends, The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother, Secret by the unmourning water Of the riding Thames. After the first death, there is no other. I hope that was easier on Blue's eyes. Joan P.S. I much prefer poetry to politics! :-)