by revd | Apr 11, 2022 | Glory
Man at the best a creature frail and vain, In knowledge ignorant, in strength but weak, Subject to sorrows, losses, sickness, pain, Each storm his state, his mind, his body break, From some of these he never finds cessation, But day or night, within, without,...
by revd | Apr 11, 2022 | Glory
A mind is not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. John Milton (1608-74), Paradise Lost.
by revd | Apr 11, 2022 | Glory
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race… For when as each thing bad thou hast entombed, And last of all thy greedy self consumed, Then long eternity shall greet our bliss With an individual kiss, And joy shall overtake us as a flood; When everything that is...
by revd | Apr 11, 2022 | Christ-likeness, Glory
The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass Is elder by a year now than then it was, When thou and I first one another saw; All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running, it never runs from... by revd | Mar 15, 2022 | Moral Justice
Less passionate, the long war throws Its burning thorn about all men, Caught in one grief, we share one wound, And cry one dialect of pain. We have forgot who fired the house, Whose easy mischief spilt first blood; Under one roof we lie; The fault no longer...
