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On Fri, March 2, 2012 17:49, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Lovely turn, that last stanza, Lawrence...
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> On 2012-03-02, at 4:15 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> Elidius walks in the water, ankle deep.
>> “You see,” he says now, some time on, “I am
>> a man like you. That’s all. I am not God.
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>> Not even his beloved son. A man.
>> I cannot put by the way that Nature works.
>> We are all part of its kind. Let us pray.”
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>> That moment, however, we wondered faintly
>> why he was paddling in the sea, shouting whatever it was. I have read it
>> since.
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>> Lawrence Upton
>> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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