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Hello. The last time we devoted most the reading to one major works and Jana's Lucifer.

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And that was the pot, just mutual factors. And tonight we're going to the opposite extreme. I haven't run long fees

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to sieves a new phase. We're going to have a good man, a sharp thesis. And I thought perhaps the

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median sickening neon night. It might be well, since this is our last reading before Christmas,

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to read some selections can, which concerns the beatific vision and the season if Christmas sometimes specifically from various ages.

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And I'm going to start with to prose passages from a strange and little known writer, the 17th century.

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The 17th century was rich in writers and thinkers of what we call a mystical turn of mind or spirit. That term is used loosely, I suppose.

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All it means is a mistake is one who seeks the union with God head. And that involves system spiritual experiences,

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which are fairly general and shared with sufficiently specific observation. So that we can say that the mystic experience is

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a reality in human life. The 17th century is rich in such writers. I do not include John Donne in Sudan. They done was a logician,

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he was a theologian. I don't think there's a particular domestic in done. But there was a great deal and George habit.

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And in Henry's gone and tailor the Platonists to translate it. So tiny, so beautifully. And illness writer Thomas.

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Thomas hands works remained in manuscript until 1897, when they were discovered both in poetry and prose.

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And he's not one of the great writers. He's a minor, right? Huh? But he has a very sensitive

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observation and he's a pod, that tradition which goes back into the medieval poems. And forward two words with Odin,

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intimations of immortality and to William Blake and to our own, Emily Dickinson, as a matter of fact and product,

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the mystical point of view is a childlike perception of things that have become commonplace for other people.

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A continued sensitive to the phenomena of the outside world. A vision of this world as if it were radiating light from beyond.

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And here's strengthens vision of the sun. And as you say, he sees the sun as if he were a child, looking at it for the first time

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and being suddenly aware of significance. And you find that simplicity to in the phrasing of this. It's yourself, therefore an image to

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the world as if you are alone and meditate upon all the services which the sudden death until suppose the sunlight absence and conceive

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the world be a dungeon of darkness and death about you. You will then find his beams more delightful than the approach of angels.

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And low the abomination to that sinful blindness whereby you see not the glory of so great and brighter creature.

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Because the air is filled with its beams, then you will think that all its light shine it for you, and confess that God has manifested himself

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indeed in the preparation of so divine creature. We'll uphold the madness of those with steam, a piece of gold more than it.

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Alas, what could a man do with a piece of gold in an everlasting dungeon? So delightful question is Justice out a questionnaire genres,

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but could a bad deal with offensive gold and an everlasting tangent. It sat, So the question, it's mystics are always

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asking and which makes them among the most and throwing of the world's inhabitants, even though they're a small minority.

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And shall we prize the sudden less than it, which is the light and fountain of all our pleasures. You will then Haw the preposterous method of

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those WHO and an evil sense of blind to do this beams and to whom the presence of the life is the greatest darkness. When is someone reminded of the dot?

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That is, Hollywood isn't funds for they who had retired and God without the sun are unthankful having it and therefore only despise it

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because it is created. It raise it com, to supply you with food, melt It's waters to Crenshaw says,

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it infuses sense into all your members and illuminates the will to entertain you with prospects.

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Surrounded with the beauty of hills and valleys. It's more or less than labor at night and day.

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Your comfort and service. Its branches, flowers upon the ground, feel pleasure. And all these things show you

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the goodness and wisdom of God that can make one thing so beautiful, delightful, and serviceable. Having ordained the same to innumerable ends,

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it can caucus minerals, raise its exhalations against his cows, send it down with you and rain and snow that refreshes

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and repair the Alia and is far more glorious. And it's Diana motion. Then if there were two sons to make on either side of perpetual day,

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swiftness whereby it moves in 24 hours about so that's the universe manifest if the PA and care the Creanga,

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more than any station or fire could do. And producing innumerable effects. It is more glorious than if millions of angels diverse they did, do them.

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Did the sun stands still? You might have a perpetual day. You would not know the sweetness of repose. The delightful vicissitudes of night and day.

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Fairly sweetness in Spring of the morning. The fifth human beauty in the cool of the evening, with all the swallowed

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up in Meridian splendor. All which now entertain you with the lights. Then antibodies would be empty, perpetual darkness and how

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that works if God on the other side of the world and vein those wonderful observations, most people would pass

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over as too simple to be set down. But do you see how everything is to Shenzhen miraculous. I'm very pleased to

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the 10 writes in complete, oblivious to the Copernican astronomy. I'm glad to see that he's a good Ptolemaic. Because I always say to my students,

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has anybody will ever been made happier by the so-called discovery that goes around the sun? I don't think so.

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I think you'll find we're not quite so happy. We were on the time axis. Doesn't do a particularly good enough. It goes around the sun.

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I like this, the swiftness whereby the sun moves in 24 hours about so fast and universe. He has the sand doing all moving with time. Now I'd like to read you

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the beatific vision from tendons meditation's is the very beautiful passage I think. And I'm going from this.

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And there's some other beatific vision from our own time. Because this is the sort of opening in the material clouds which has been seen

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and all times by various kinds of people. Know his two hands vision. He sees a transfigured is. And he says The Khan was

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orient and immortal fee, which never should be reached. No one's ever sounds. I thought it is.

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From everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street. What is precious goes the gates where it fits the end of the world.

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The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates, transported in radish me. Sweetness and unusual beauty made

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my heart too late and almost mad with ecstasy. They were strange and wonderful things. The men are, what

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venerable and Reverend creatures did the aged seem. A multiple cherubim and young men glittering and sparkling angels and maids,

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strange ceramic pieces of life and butane, boys and girls tumbling in the street and playing while moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or die,

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but all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places. Eternity was manifest in

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the light of the day. And something infinite behind everything appeared, which talk to my expectation

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and moved my desire. The cities seem to stand and eaten. Ought to be built in heaven. The streets will mind.

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The temple was the people who are mine. They close and gold and silver mine. As much as a sparkling eyes, fair skins and ready faces.

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The skies will mine. And so the sun and moon and stars and all the world was mine. And I are the only spectator and enjoy it.

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I knew no cherish proprieties. Know downs, no divisions, but all proprieties and divisions from nine, all the treasures and the possesses as him.

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So that was not should do. I was corrupted, made to learn the devices of this world which now and learn and become as it were,

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a little child again, that I may enter into the Kingdom of God. Extraordinarily beautiful passage, I think apparently the idea

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being that as the sense of possession overwhelms him and manganese treasures, then he has to unlearn all that

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again and become, as a little child. I'm going to move quickly from that to a modern expression of one my colleagues. Hey, moment.

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This is by one of the best of our modern, of the modern poets of England. A man who was later work is far less stopping and his early work,

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and my mind much better. But since nowadays, the most startling work is the more appraised Siegfried Sassoon.

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Later poems have gone unnoticed. And now this poem of his seems to me to have that exuberance and you get into hand's passage,

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called everyone's saying. Everyone suddenly burst out singing. And that was filled with such delight as prison beds must find in

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freedom winging wildly across the white arches and dark green fields. On and out of sight. Everyone's voice was suddenly

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lifted and beauty came like the setting sun. My heart was shaken with tears and horror drifted away over everyone was a bed and the song

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was woodlands singing whenever they done. I think I'll read that again. Everyone suddenly burst out singing and I was filled with such delight as

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prison bids must find in freedom winging wildly across the wide arches and dark green fields. On, on an out of sight.

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Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted and beauty came like the setting sun. My heart was shaken with tears and horror drifted away.

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Oh, but everyone was a bed. And the song was wordless. Singing will never be done. We're really the edist poems to draw

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off the mask of false idealism from the face of war. Well now, I'd like to turn back two centuries and

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read part of the song to David by Christopher. Christopher Snyder was for zest. And from the point of view of saying,

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well, he was periodically insane. One of the forms of his insanity us to draw on his knees and pray and insisted others pray with him.

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And once when he had been sent off to the side, I'm Dr. Johnson's had to remain things than praying with kids.

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Well, in fact, it's not it's not that he wrote very sign poetry when he was in the asylum. And apparently thread,

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his same poetry was not nearly so good. Part of his insanity was sort of exaltation. And luckily had the technique instinctively for setting down

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this ecstasy that possessed him. And we have some curious results. The poem about the lamb, almost interminable, I must lead to the great enthusiasts

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for Smith's work, there are those who enjoy that poem. I can't go that far. It seems to me to come rather

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incoherent that the song to David, just a few stanzas, which I'm going to Rate you as a very beautiful exaltation. And furthermore, it has besides

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that, a curious fact, caliche, which shows what century Christopher smart long to imagine that manages

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to say some metaphysical things. If a grammatically. But for the most part, this song, David is just a soaring up with

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a complete freedom is the hot in adoration and the life. Sublime invention ever Young, a vast conception, towering

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tongue to God, the Eternal theme. Note some yarn exhortations caught unrivaled, Ryle give thought, or Mina, strain supreme. He sang of God,

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the mighty source of all things, the stupendous false on which all strength depends. Proposed right?

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Beneath whose eyes? All period, power and enterprise commences. Rains and Ns.

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Tell them I am Jehovah said to Moses, I'll head in red and smitten to the hot at once about beneath, around all nature without voice or sound.

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Replied, O Lord, thou art the world. The clustering spheres he made. The glorious light, the soothing shade, Dale champagne growth and

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here the multitudinous, this fair secrecy remains in place and wisdom hides her scare of the pillars of the law that seven,

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which stand for two topmost heaven. His wisdom drew the plan, his word accomplish the design from brightest Gem to deepest

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nine from Christ and thrown to man. Precious. The penitential tear and precious is the size and acceptable to God, and precious or the winning flowers.

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In grandson Israel's Feasts, thou has found on the hallowed sod, glorious the sun in mid-career. Glorious. The assembled stars appear.

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Glorious. The comments train. Glorious the trumpets and the Glorious. The all night is stretched out.

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Guys thin raptured main. Glorious. The Northern Lights stream. Gaius, the song when gods, the theme, glorious, the thunderous roar,

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glorious Susanna. And then Gary is the Catholic. Amen. Glorious. Glorious.

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Glorious is the crown of him, brought salvation down by meekness called thy son. Thou that stupendous truth believed.

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And now the match list deeds achieved, determined dad and done. Magnificent. And it's really like great in this dialogue and music,

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perhaps in some composition of handles, which would certainly have been familiar to Christopher Snider. There are many of those stanzas of

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the glorious as the theme. Factor. One has to cut them especially forth. Presenting in a brief program. Then of course, is

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that lovely thing which has been turned into a knot. And him here, roofs alumni, happy home, which has

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some very beautiful scenes in it. Rather like some, uh, try angelic Gogh's paintings. Remember

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those wonderful things for angelic host, apparently celestial gotten Todd, who's going on forever. The angel standing around,

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their violence and people dancing is ours. And well rubber like transient description. This is, again, a charming thing, was oh, this is Riyadh adaptation

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and material that goes way back to the Middle Ages. To ban it a PEBO. And you'll note the great joy.

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And finally, adornments, the jewels and all is the things picked up as it were for the life of man and his eternal aspect.

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Here. Am I happy home? When shall I come to the show? My sorrows have an N jars.

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When shall I see? Oh, happy harbor of the sayings. Oh sweet and pleasant soil in the no sorrow, maybe found no grief,

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no can now tile there. Dust and Luca cannot dwell there and they, there's no sway. There is no hunger.

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He not cold, but pleasure every way. Every way that walls are made of precious stones that have Volvox diamond

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square side gate to write, orient TO exceeding rich and rare terahertz and I pinnacles with carbon goes do shine. The various streets paved with gold,

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surpassing Claire and find my sweet home, Jerusalem. We've got our in the weed God, my rose risen in the joys that I might see.

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Gardens and I gallon, walks continually add green. There grows set sweet and pleasant flowers. As nowhere else scene,

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quite to the streets with silver sound. The flood of life that flow upon whose banks on every side. The wood of life does grow.

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Their trees forevermore bear fruit and evermore do spring. There evermore, the angels sit. And FMOD is saying,

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lady sings magnify cat with tone surpassing sweet. And all the virgins bear their pa sitting about her feet.

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Here is alumni happy home. Word got out and they would guard my woes resin n side jaws that I might see. Thought of that is familiar as him.

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This particular version came out in song of Mary the mother of Christ in 16 1. That's, it goes back down to the app's data. And many centuries, Elliott.

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And you like roses. That is, That's it damages our doubtless notice. How similar the decorations here

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are two rows that is pre-Raphaelite adornments in that beautiful balance. Now I'd like to review a few old ones near

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the specific Christmas season. I've been told that everybody likes to hear these middle English poems.

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And I'm always very glad to read them. Always making proper anthologies to a great deal of scholarship. It's gone under the bridge

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in cycles, Middle English. This is a beautiful thing. In fact, some of these religious poetry written by

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landed men in the monasteries or by poets that a great many of them, so obviously still have the stamp of the common people.

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Very much as centuries earlier, an Anglo-Saxon times. Cadmus Him brings back to us almost the living voice

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to that remote age. This lovely things called our ladies song. And it just means Jesus dear sweet son. Thou aliased here on

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a bed which previously saw. Cradle is merely via the oxygen us or both I, companions, I, we, we find much theft bore

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Jesus sweet V naught rho that I have no Proudhon thought the the one to fold you in and the 12 rack you in for.

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I have neither cout know folder, but warm nine feet in my bosom and then deal with data format in my bosom and shelter. These Nicole keeps me from Nichols.

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But that term following feet in Verbum shows if one state the knowledge, at least tolerate the times when people can't see each other.

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Webinars. I think cooler winters and England has now. And of course, as you know, they even share that houses

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the animals and those days for the sake of the ROM, as well as for wracked with other children. Fathers.

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Really it's very close to the t for the whole five years you sway to SONA there on powerful data list, do hair.

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And that may grant. So far the crowd is as a data arc sin theta whitish may the yeas, you swayed vein of Rob do a snob snake.

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They fought and fall down the arm to fold and a2, rough, fresh now but then Laffer, that lays do the faith to meet Panther.

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And we say from the cold, some of these you've read the readings. Especially this one which is one of my favorites.

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And this is very polished stone. This is that famous. Him to the vision taught in Latin and pop in Middle English.

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One, it is so fair price we start to see brighter than the day's life. Like parent and made another and made, and I cried to me,

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lady pray thy son for me. So I may come to the Mariann. All will just fall on IV. Having sinned, being a sinner,

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allowed us bomb from the mother, Jenna tree say, with our day with a hail, it went away. The Dark Knight and then

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comes the day of salvation. The wellspring. Well as virtue springs on the lady flowers, everything grows without. So on.

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Taobao, Jesus, Heavenly King, divine grace. Thou bears the prize, lady Queen of paradise, chosen name, maiden Miles.

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Mother is made, it's made a mother. And you'll see the way the Latin, Middle English a woven together. It has one of the most beautiful harmony

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is if Georgetown that I know of in torching subdominant is itself fair and breached their marriage. Stellar British did in the days

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reached patterns at Teuila. It came today to say to may, never a prey the sun from a time t naught come today.

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Maryanne, all is well, this fall or EVA, pick a tree, stay till our Lord with a detailed agenda tree say,

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without aid, went away. Exhaustiveness in comes the day still uses. The valence spring is due today. Nowadays.

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Flu virus thing. Rosa send a spina, do bear yea to have Nick King, graph, yeah, Divina, a vow,

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do bench, the priest. Never a quaint parodies elect are made and meal then node a, the effect size.

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Which like you that again, the vomited, so fair enriched, relative, not a stellar British citizen. The day is this patterns as Teuila cage,

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they do say today, never a prey the sun from a time to come today. All his will was followed

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by a dot pack a tree, say till our Lord was the Barra, that a janitor he say, without that went away

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sustenance in comes the day. So do this. Well as spring a Tuesday, V2s. Love it. A fluid or valid thing. Rosy scenario has been very yeas.

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You have Nick King, Garcia Divina, a vow, do best, the priest, never a crane. And Saturday, I made a meal that mode effect.

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That really has the most rapturous combination of sounds that they need no music for that. It's music in itself.

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But then there's that lovely. So I'm with all these poems are familiar to you all already. This is another hymn to

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the Virgin and somewhat later date. I think this is just feel is the reason. Creativity actually says, I should take, this would be about 150 years anyway.

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They had them individually. I just read. I think of a maiden that is Nicholas, King of all kings,

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to her son. She chess. They came also still says mother was as do and a brilliant thoughts on the grass.

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They came also still to as mothers as du and April 4th sunflowers. They came also still. There's mother lay as

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du and a thrill at fault on the spray. Mother and made was never none, but she, well may such a lady, Goddess, Mother, the atlas.

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And you get that same strain you got in the passage down to that other one that not only at what is being seen, but also at the woods with

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which franchise to convey what is being seen. What could be simpler and more beautiful. That last stanza is 70, so crazy about it.

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I think that's the word I choose for it. Another and Maidan was never none, but she, well may such a lady, goddess mother, the justice,

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the highest celestial politeness, Jewish. And here's this curious for him. I think I read that before and these readings,

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but it will always their hearing again. So one of the strangest poems and the language. This is the early 15 hundreds.

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It's clear enough, I think I don't have to read it first in the modern English because it's financed. Almost in modern work.

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That niche to ninth finished, finished, finished for night. But it's, it's very strange. It's like a tapestry.

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And again, it has a magical incantation to it. Really in the day, Lilly relay the Falcon, it's gone me Mac away.

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He bear him up. He then don't. Then I'm into an orchard brown. In that orchard there was

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an hall that was hang it with Teflon Paul. And then that hall, it was a bet. It was hanging with gold, so rate. And in that bed,

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that alliance declination is wound displaying day and nourished by that better than ME. And she waited those niche and day.

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And by that, that is psi this done that the stones, Corpus Christi written there on Jane. Mysterious point.

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It's one of the most mysterious poems and one of the other mysterious soils and language, Shakespeare's Phoenix and title

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The Phoenix and anyone can have fun interpreting that. And nobody has contradiction because no two scholars agree.

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Reminds me a Chinese student of mine, he witnessed six years we became very good friends now. And I much admire

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the way they are, translations from Chinese. And finally, incidentally the job, why did for me one year and his special studies is to make a complete medical Chan,

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he was going to make complete medical chart. A Paradise Lost, indicating not only the access for all degrees of actions, 25 degrees.

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And at the end of Book 3, I call him off my standards, him on his own. But at any rate, I very much admire the way

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these translations and Chinese. And finally, setting Jen, tell me off a whale Translation. Accurate meal finds you.

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And he always called me. Master. Ceremony says, Oh, no master. No, not accurate at all.

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He spoke very precisely. Not accurate at all. I should interpret the symbols differently in every case.

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But I may say, as I can think of this, that not one critic in China would agree with me.

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So I came to the conclusion that Arthur well as guest was about as good as anybody else. Well, that's the way we'll set strange poems as the Phoenix in the table,

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which perhaps has specific surface and allegory. And this strange, the little a allele, little a, the Faulkner's von limit

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will return not enough. Frog in a major way. Ebay him up, he bear him down. He their him into an orchard grounds.

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In that orchard there was an hall. It was hanging to trip and fall. And then that fall It was bad. It was hanging out with gold, so red.

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And in that bed there late at night, his wounds bleeding day and night. By that bedside, needs a maid and she weeps with both nice and day.

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And by the bedside stand that the stone, Corpus Christi written neuron goes well. However you say psychosis, say the flux at about

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his symphonies than it was in rehearsal is D minor symphony. Conductor is set to now, I've taken fast and I take my flow,

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which do you prefer? Say the facts values that they both sound good to me. Then he has this famous

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run which is familiar to everybody call preparations or no, that's correct. Crutches title for it.

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It's a little allegory. What I like about this is the specific description of what happened in acute a house when he was going to visit.

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I suppose this is l2. Yet if His Majesty are sovereign, lord should have his own accord. Friendly himself, invite and say,

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I'll be your guest tomorrow night. How should we store our sales call and command all hands to work? Let no man idle stand,

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set may find Spanish tables in the hall. See they be fitted on. Let there be room to eat. And ADA, taken that they want no meat.

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Cfa scans and candlesticks made bright that without tapers, they may give the light look to the presence or the carpet spread,

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the Udacity or the head, the cushions in the chairs. And all the candle's light is unsteady as fulfill the chambers.

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And in any case, that each man give attendance in his place. Thus, if a king we're coming, what do we do? And for good reason to,

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what is a duty thing to show all honor to him as the King. And after all our travel and our cost, he be pleased to say two things.

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No labor lost. But at the coming of the king of heaven, all set at 67. We wallow in us in

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Christ cannot find a chamber in. We entertain him always like a stranger. And is it first still large even imagine. Very dramatic, isn't it?

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It seems to me complete in itself. And yet have heard it called the fragment. I don't know exactly where it could go from narrow,

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what could we add to it? Then there's this lovely old ballads. Well, before I read that, I'd like to read Robert Cephalus,

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strange old phone. Not a great foil. It's a picture as deeply felt poem. And again, this is in Elizabethan times,

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the written by Catholics taught who indeed died because of his religion. That's called venting. Dave.

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It has its crew to this value. Admit to it has power. As i and hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow.

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Surprised I was with sudden heat, which made my heart to go. And lifting up a fearful eye to view what file is near. A pretty babe.

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All bending bribes did in the air appear. Who sculptured with excessive heat. Such floods of tears did shed. As though his floods should quenches flames,

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which with his tears were bred, allows quality but newly born and fire a heat, fry. Yet none approach to warm their Haas or feel

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my file that I faultless breast. The finish is the fuel, wounding thorns. Love as the fire and size the smoke. The ashes shames and scorns the fuel.

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Justice, justice and mercy blows the coals. The metal in this furnace wrought Men's, the silage cells for which has now on fire I am to work them to the good.

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So Ally melt into a wash them and my blood. With this, he vanished out of sight and swiftly shrunk away. And straight I call it,

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undermines that it was Christmas day. You have in that poem stained and elaborate set of figures having to,

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which we associate more with the following century so-called metaphysical figures. The figure the day, Israel, a beautiful day.

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I suddenly appearing in the middle of a snowstorm. But then as it seems to me that poets fingers all become sums.

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In attempting to become grim email, it becomes crude. It's not a great time. But as I say,

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it has a sort of primitive telephone and much more lovable follow him as this one. Most of those early poets were not content with

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staying in one season, such as Christmas. They usually went forward through the whole cycle, through the crucifixion and resurrection.

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And so it is to an extent with this one, an old ballad called the seven visions. Because we don't know when these values were written. Began.

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They were all written down in some specific date. But they'd been in existence for centuries before that.

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And you know, the old woman's in the Highlands said to Sir Walter Scott. And he was writing down ballots. He asked this woman to refi has certain

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valid to him so he can write down. And she said, oh, but if you write down and it wouldn't be a valid with it. And that is, I think too,

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as soon as these ballads become cool off and print writing, then they lose that molten quality, which they haven't passed

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down from generation to generation. By word of mouth. This is the beauty, I think it's very naive and stuff. All under the leaves and the leaves of life.

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I met with Virgin 71 of them was Mary miles. Lot mothers heaven. Or what are you seeking you? Seven maids all under the leaves of life.

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Come tell come tell what CQ, all under the leaves of lines we're seeking for now leaves Thomas. But for a friend of mine with seeking for

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sweet Jesus Christ to be our guide. And then go down, go down to Yamada town and sit in the gallery.

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And they all C-suite Jesus Christ nail to big U3. So down they went to yonder town is fastest first-cut fall.

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And many agree with video here from the Virgin XYZ did for OTs, mother, our mother. You're waiting the me grieve.

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I must suffer this he said, for atoms and four 0s or another, take you John Evangelist, all four to be your son.

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And he will comfort you. Sometimes, mothers desires done. I'll come thou John Evangelist that welcomed me.

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The small Welcome my own dear son for my nails done 90. He laid his head on his right shoulder. Seeing death, it struck him nine.

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The Holy Ghost, be with yourself or I die, mother dear, I die. All of the rows, the general rows and the phenol,

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it grows so green. God gives us grace in every place to pray for king and queen. Furthermore, for our enemies,

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all pairs, they should be strong. Men, good Lord, your charity is the ending of myself. Very SVC settings, very naive because it's

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largely concerned with the crucifixion. But you get the feeling they're small English market. The dialogue is especially

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good and then suddenly it costs. You have the ending which has no relation to the rest of it at all, but prayers for the king and queen.

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It's just, I'm going to be just one long. Judge inhibits poem. The dialogue member. This again is a poem of symbols.

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Isn't die. Poet who was himself a mystic and a priest in the Church of England. It's interesting that group,

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because the judge inhibit, causes a beat. Henry gone on the other hand are the duct, lived in Wales. Pentagon brother Thomas von was

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an AAC healthiest an outcome SD card and sell your genius. Finally, thes and all those people with a spiritual

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and sometimes spirits realistic interests flourishing in the middle of this chaotic 17th century. It's as if they withdrawn into another world

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from a ferocious situation, it'll become too much. But if people had to flee the 17th century, I can only wonder why we haven't had

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a great revival mysticism and these days that may welcome. Yet my soul drew back guilty of dust and sin. But quick, I love

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observing me grow slack from nine-fifths tensions in due near at you may sweetly questioning. If I lacked anything against I said,

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where did they hear? Love said, you shall be, hey, I see unkind, ungrateful. An idea. I can look on the left tip

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my hand and smiling did reply. Who made the eyes? But I truth law that I have not let my shame go where does deserve.

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And no, Una says Love, who bought the blame? My ideas and I will says, humans sit down, says Love and taste my meat.

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So I did sit and eat is an absolute masterpiece in this savvy that again, I don't think that pass.

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Love dad, me, welcome. Yet my soul drew back guilty of dust and sin. But quick, I love observing the grow slack for my first entrance in,

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drew nearer to me sweetly questioning. If I lacked anything a guest I answered, worthy to be here. I love said.

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Usually he ie, the unkind, ungrateful idea. I can look on the left tip my hand and smiling did reply. Who made the eyes?

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But I truth Lord, but I have not. Let my shame girl just freezes. And know you Nazis love to borrow the blame. My idea then I will says,

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you must sit down, says Love and tastes NIH me. So I did shit. And he goes, That is,

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combines that wonderful feeling we felt and thought poetry together with the most beautiful Polish. Terrific craftsmanship,

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inspired craftsmanship. And now as usual tonight, I think this set some of that economists have that wonderful

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Foreign Service. I am going to read a few of my own things close to the zoo, my own things.

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I have five short ones here listed which I make us down Vm times and they're all winter thesis. And I'll end with hey, little carol,

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which has been set to music side Daniel thinking, who's set several things. The first one is

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a picture of a deserted farm house in New England. Hills. Shadows bang and the wind outside.

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Cobwebs hang fundamental dude walls, stale down mold and the lifeless cold. Dawes flung wide to the dock and halls. Love and strength to the new key in race.

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Live full length, whether weeds grow high. All things swept to the past except this ruin place the wind rose by blank disaster.

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Empty windows, broken parts strewn on the floor. Darkness spills from the wildly hills, and the winter wind blows under the door.

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And here is a lighter one called, In fact, it's called light snowfall. As one of those more buoyant moments of winter.

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There bitches and beyond. Red oak trees, dark with cold. Silence is on the pond. And I, who wants to

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grow young as children's voices breaks the poetic T's are ones I would have that there's still a camera sees.

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But sliding now I'm skating, make spots, are meditating. But could a poem at Yale. And I'm glad I learned,

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beauties move in pulsing vein and vision. The things that children love need no serine, decision. Coasting through snow,

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a rainbows are slanted on this skates. They breed all beauty. Knowing that beauty never wastes. Together, they end with the, the winter sky.

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And I this moment, growing in MOHO, it is snowing. And I think I'll conclude now for this little Carol.

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Before I conclude, I might make one factual pronouncements that next the next reading is Monday, January 11th.

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At this time. As I hope, Monday, January 11th. I think that's right. So the new Canada called Christmas Eve.

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The snow lies crisp beneath the stars on roofs and on-the-ground. Late footsteps, crunchy long time. There is no other sound.

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So cold it is the roadside trees next in the rigid Frost, a dreadful night to think on them. The homeless and the lost.

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The dead sleep, sheltered in the to the rich, drink in the hall. The vision and the Holy Child lies shivering in a stall.

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And that will be your last.