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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (78101)	2/27/2003 10:46:08 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? That is Yeats most famous couplet, from "The Second Coming." The Evangelicals love it. The biggest selling group of books in the USA today are Evangelical ones on this subject. The "Second Coming" Novels out hit the Times "Best Seller"list their first week. I love the narrative Romantics. I memorized a lot of Kipling and Service as a kid. When I read our Canadian Doves here I always remember the middle stanza from Newbolt's "Vitae Lampada," which I think almost all British and Canadian schoolboys had to memorize in the early 20th Century. Plus all Boy Scouts World Wide. They hated it, of course. The sand of the desert is sodden red- Red with the wreck of the square that broke The gatling's jammed and the colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed its banks, And England's far and Honor a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks- "Play up! Play up! And play the game!"