[Bards] So when Death asks me...
Beth
celtic_wolff at yahoo.com
Wed May 28 18:29:50 PDT 2008
Yes there are. Indeed, there are.
Elanor
"Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon your way.
Never trust a stranger-friend; No one knows how it will end.
As you're pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise.
Handsome they may be, and kind, Gay, or charming never mind!
Now, as then, 'tis simple truth...
Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth!"
--- On Thu, 5/29/08, Peter Schorn <peterschorn at pdq.net> wrote:
> From: Peter Schorn <peterschorn at pdq.net>
> Subject: [Bards] So when Death asks me...
> To: bards at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008, 1:00 AM
> WHY DID YOU SPEND SO MUCH OF YOUR LIFE ON A GAME OF
> MAKE-BELIEVE?
>
> Here is what I'll say:
>
> "Though all the critics' canons grow-
> Far seedier than the actors' own-
> Although the cottage-door's too low-
> Although the fairy's twenty stone-
> Although, just like the telephone,
> She comes by wire and not by wings,
> Though all the mechanism's known-
> Believe me, there are real things.
>
> "Yes, real people- even so-
> Even in a theatre, truth is known,
> Though the agnostic will not know,
> And though the gnostic will not own,
> There is a thing called skin and bone,
> And many a man that struts and sings
> Has been as stony-broke as stone.
> Believe me, there are real things
>
> "There is an hour when all men go;
> An hour when man is all alone.
> When idle minstrels in a row
> Went down with all the bugles blown-
> When brass and hymn and drum went down,
> Down in death's throat with thunderings-
> Ah, though the unreal things have grown,
> Believe me, there are real things.
>
> "Prince, though your hair is not your own
> And half your face held on by strings,
> And if you sat, you'd smash your throne-
> Believe me, there are real things."
>
> --G. K
> Chesterton_______________________________________________
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