Worthy the Reading II

• Wow, Who Are the Smart Guys?
• The Liberal Pessimists
• Still Red
• How churches played into Iraq's hands
• AWOL
• Distortion by omission

(Thanks, Mark and John.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 04/16/03 09:20:52 PM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.

April Morning

One of my poems is 15 years old today.

April Morning

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 04/16/03 04:02:47 PM
Categorized as Literary.

John Donne: Holy Sonnets XV

Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest,
My Soule, this wholsome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by Angels waited on
In heaven, doth make his Temple in thy brest.
The Father having begot a Sonne most blest,
And still begetting, (for he ne'r begonne)
Hath deign'd to chuse thee by adoption,
Coheire to'his glory,'and Sabbaths endlesse rest;
And as a robb'd man, which by search doth finde
His stolne stuffe sold, must lose or buy'it againe;
The Sonne of glory came downe, and was slaine,
Us whom he'had made, and Satan stolne, to unbinde.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more.

[The Complete English Poems, ed. C. A. Patrides, p. 444.]

(See also modernized.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 04/16/03 08:11:10 AM
Categorized as Literary & Religious.