Thought for the Day (July 22)

Subject: Thought for the Day (July 22)
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Jul 99 - 08:51 AM

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

--William Shakespeare.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (July 22)
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 22 Jul 99 - 08:55 AM

Heard on BBC radio this morning in a trailer for a programme on Music and Sport:
Music is to the passive what sport is to the active: both provide the same adrenylin rush.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (July 22)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 22 Jul 99 - 10:04 AM

Roger, I wouldn't say that music is all that passive for many of us here at the Mudcat Tavern!

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (July 22)
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jul 99 - 10:12 AM

Nice sentiments for today, PeterT, with Shambs' leaving.

kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (July 22)
From: Neil Lowe
Date: 22 Jul 99 - 11:01 AM

Billy sure could turn a phrase, couldn't he?

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (July 22)
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jul 99 - 03:40 PM

and Peter sure has keen sense of what is called for....

thanks, Peter

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (July 22)
From: LEJ
Date: 22 Jul 99 - 05:26 PM

One of his best sonnets, which is indeed saying something.