well, I'm afraid, Ivy, that you must have misread my post too
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 14 November 2002 20:08
Subject: Re: Paulin Plucked ...
| Well said!
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| >So because, after 30 years of war and terror, some Israelis have become
| >gibbering maniacs, you might be interested in a poet who's become a
| >gibbering maniac?
| >
| >Too long a sacrifice
| >Can make a stone of the heart.
| >O when may it suffice?
| >That is heaven's part, our part
| >To murmur name upon name,
| >As a mother names her child
| >When sleep at last has come
| >On limbs that had run wild.
| >What is it but nightfall?
| >No, no, not night but death.
| >Was it needless death after all?
| >
| >It doesn't matter how Yeats would have answered his own question--that
| >stone in the midst of all is still death, not justice.
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