David Thanks was reading that this morning but the idea of copying it all
out was too much -would mention that on my email- lines seems to be moving
about!!
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Subject: Religious poem
Fifty percent of Air Force Academy as evangelicals,
just waiting to fly their computers by the regs to
drop holy bombs. Scary. Where's Chuck Yeager when you
need him?
Arthur Hugh Clough:
THE LATEST DECALOGUE.
Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?
No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency:
Swear not at all; for, for thy curse
Thine enemy is none the worse:
At church on Sunday to attend
Will serve to keep the world thy friend:
Honour thy parents; that is, all
From whom advancement may befall;
Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Officiously to keep alive:
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it:
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,
When it's so lucrative to cheat:
Bear not false witness; let the lie
Have time on its own wings to fly:
Thou shalt not covet, but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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