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|    Cujo DeSockpuppet to NancyGene    |
|    Re: JANUARY, by William Morris (from "Th    |
|    11 Jan 26 00:52:28    |
      From: cujo@petitmorte.net              nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in       news:s3OdneM6ialifP_0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com:              >> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:       >> nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in       >> news:cC-dnbxBsNZ8K__0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com:       >>       >>       >>> NancyGene wrote:       >>>       >>> NancyGene wrote:       >>> JANUARY.       >>> by William Morris       >>>       >>> FROM this dull rainy undersky and low,       >>> This murky ending of a leaden day,       >>> That never knew the sun, this half-thawed snow,       >>> These tossing black boughs faint against the grey       >>> Of gathering night, thou turnest, dear, away       >>> Silent, but with thy scarce-seen kindly smile       >>> Sent through the dusk my longing to beguile.       >>>       >>> There, the lights gleam, and all is dark without!       >>> And in the sudden change our eyes meet dazed"       >>> O look, love, look again! the veil of doubt       >>> Just for one flash, past counting, then was raised!       >>> O eyes of heaven, as clear thy sweet soul blazed       >>> On mine a moment! O come back again       >>> Strange rest and dear amid the long dull pain!       >>>       >>> Nay, nay, gone by! though there she sitteth still,       >>> With wide grey eyes so frank and fathomless"       >>> Be patient, heart, thy days they yet shall fill       >>> With utter rest"Yea, now thy pain they bless,       >>> And feed thy last hope of the world's redress"       >>> O unseen hurrying rack! O wailing wind!       >>> What rest and where go ye this night to find?       >>>       >>> THE year has changed its name since that last tale;       >>> Yet nought the prisoned spring doth that avail.       >>> Deep buried under snow the country lies;       >>> Made dim by whirling flakes the rook still flies       >>> South-west before the wind; noon is as still       >>> As midnight on the southward-looking hill,       >>> Whose slopes have heard so many words and loud       >>> Since on the vine the woolly buds first showed.       >>> The raven hanging o’er the farmstead gate,       >>> While for another death his eye doth wait,       >>> Hears but the muffled sound of crowded byre       >>> And winds’ moan round the wall. Up in the spire       >>> The watcher set high o’er the half-hid town       >>> Hearkens the sound of chiming bells fall down       >>> Below him; and so dull and dead they seem       >>> That he might well-nigh be amidst a dream       >>> Wherein folk hear and hear not.       >>> Such a tide,       >>> With all work gone from the hushed world outside,       >>> Still finds our old folk living, and they sit       >>> Watching the snow-flakes by the window flit       >>> Midmost the time ’twixt noon and dusk; till now       >>> One of the elders clears his knitted brow,       >>> And says:       >>> "Well, hearken of a man who first       >>> In every place seemed doomed to be accursed;       >>> To tell about his ill hap lies on me;       >>> Before the winter is quite o’er, maybe       >>> Some other mouth of his good hap may tell;       >>> But no third tale there is, of what befell       >>> His fated life, when he had won his place;       >>> And that perchance is not so ill a case       >>> For him and us; for we may rise up, glad       >>> At all the rest and triumph that he had       >>> Before he died; while he, forgetting clean       >>> The sorrow and the joy his eyes had seen,       >>> Lies quiet and well famed"and serves to-day       >>> To wear a space of winter-tide away."       >>> -----       >>>       >>> From "The Earthly Paradise       >>> December-February"       >>> by William Morris       >>> [1870]       >>>       >>>       >>>       >>> We see that George Dunce has again tried to steal our poem. Does he       >>> have no shame?       >>>       >>>       >>>       >>> We will answer that question: No, he does not. George Dunce does       >>> not have any sense of what is ethical. He has Moose Jaw.       >>>       >>       >>       >> Moose Jaw doesn't want him.       >>       >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_Jaw       >>       >       > What about the rest of the Moose?              I think it's kind of a package deal. But who does want George in the       first place other than a Douchebag?              --       "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to       you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're       functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -       Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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