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TWILIGHT ZONE TEST....
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[shadow=purple]The Second Coming[/shadow]
William Butler Yeats
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
Surely some relevation is at hand;
Surely the second coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are the words out
When a vast image out of spiritual minds
Troubles my sight; somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again, but now I know
The twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocky cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
( quote shared by Tulc on the Friendship Forum, under "Quotes")
William Butler Yeats
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
Surely some relevation is at hand;
Surely the second coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are the words out
When a vast image out of spiritual minds
Troubles my sight; somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again, but now I know
The twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocky cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
( quote shared by Tulc on the Friendship Forum, under "Quotes")
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[shadow=light grey]HARPS HUNG UP IN BABYLON[/shadow]
"The harps hung up in Babylon
Their loosed strings rang on, sand on,
And cast the murmur forth upon
The roll and roar of Babylon
"Forget me, Lord, if I forget
Jerusalem for Babylon
If I forget the vision set
High as the head of Lebanon
Is lifted over Syria yet
If I forget and bow me down
To brutish gods of Babylon
Two rivers to each other run
In the very midst of Babylon
And swifter than the current fleets
Of Babylon, of Babylon
The restless river of the streets
Of Babylon. of Babylon
And Babylon's towers smite the sky
But higher reeks to God on high
The smoke of her iniquity
"But oh, betwist the green and blue
To walk the hills that once we knew
When you were pure, and I was true."
So rang the Harps of Babylon
Or 'ere along the roads of stone
Had let us captive one by one
The subtle gods of Babylon
The Harps hung up in Babylon
Hung silent till the prophet's dawn
When Judah's feet the highway burned
Back to the Holy hills returned
And shook the dust of Babylon
In Zion's halls the wild Harps rang
To Zion's walls their smitten clang
And lo!...of Babylon they sang
They only sang of Babylon:
"Jehovah, round the throne of awe
The vassal stars their orbit's draw
Within the circle of thy law
Can'st Thou make nothing what is done
Or cause thy servants to be one?"
That has not been in Babylon
That has not known the power of pain
Of life poured out like driven rain
I will go down and find again
My soul, that's lost in Babylon."
(author unknown)
( From (RVS)Psalm 137: "By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept when we remembered Zion, we hung our harps in the willows in the midst thereof")
"The harps hung up in Babylon
Their loosed strings rang on, sand on,
And cast the murmur forth upon
The roll and roar of Babylon
"Forget me, Lord, if I forget
Jerusalem for Babylon
If I forget the vision set
High as the head of Lebanon
Is lifted over Syria yet
If I forget and bow me down
To brutish gods of Babylon
Two rivers to each other run
In the very midst of Babylon
And swifter than the current fleets
Of Babylon, of Babylon
The restless river of the streets
Of Babylon. of Babylon
And Babylon's towers smite the sky
But higher reeks to God on high
The smoke of her iniquity
"But oh, betwist the green and blue
To walk the hills that once we knew
When you were pure, and I was true."
So rang the Harps of Babylon
Or 'ere along the roads of stone
Had let us captive one by one
The subtle gods of Babylon
The Harps hung up in Babylon
Hung silent till the prophet's dawn
When Judah's feet the highway burned
Back to the Holy hills returned
And shook the dust of Babylon
In Zion's halls the wild Harps rang
To Zion's walls their smitten clang
And lo!...of Babylon they sang
They only sang of Babylon:
"Jehovah, round the throne of awe
The vassal stars their orbit's draw
Within the circle of thy law
Can'st Thou make nothing what is done
Or cause thy servants to be one?"
That has not been in Babylon
That has not known the power of pain
Of life poured out like driven rain
I will go down and find again
My soul, that's lost in Babylon."
(author unknown)
( From (RVS)Psalm 137: "By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept when we remembered Zion, we hung our harps in the willows in the midst thereof")
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[shadow=grey]GHOST TRAINS[/shadow]
GHOST TRAIN painting by Dave Parker www.daveparker.freeservers.com
GHOST TRAIN painting by Dave Parker www.daveparker.freeservers.com
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[shadow=purple] GHOST SHIP [/shadow]
www.home.world-online.no/rou/ny_side_5.htm
"Desperanza" www.art.gothic.ru.com
www.home.world-online.no/rou/ny_side_5.htm
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"THE CALLING OF THE APOSTLES PETER AND ANDREW"
Duccio Di Buoninsegna Sienese Active (1278-1318)
www.cgfa.sunsite.dk/duccio/duccio3.jpg
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