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Archive for January 25th, 2009

You can live unholy and then holy in this world
 
          In Eternity you will live forever
 
                    in one state or the other. – eab, 10/2005    

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Out of the Towns of Egypt,
Out of the ghettos of Ham,
With oxen and calf, kid and goat,
Ewe and stately old ram,
 
With bundles on back and head:
Breadboards and extra garb,
Marched a nation of men,
Who’d recently felt a master’s barb.
 
Mountain to right of them,
Rose in its height,
Mountain to left of them,
Cut off all flight.
 
While the rumble of [...]

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 “Cotter’s Saturday Night” (verse 12)
 The cheerfu’ supper done, wi’ serious face,
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The sire turns o’er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha’bible, ance his father’s pride:
His bonnet rev’rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with judicious care;
And [...]

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