Thought for the day-August 7th

07 Aug 99 - 01:18 AM (#102979)
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From: katlaughing

Soon as the eve'ning shades prevail
The moon takes up the wondrous tale
And nightly to the list'ning earth
Repeats the story of her birth.

While all the stars that round her burn
And all the planets in their turn
Confirm the tidings as they roll
And spread the truth from pole to pole.

- Joseph Addison - 1672-1719

Song No. 18 from the Natural Course in Music
MUSIC READER, Number One
by Frederic H. Ripley
Principal of the Bigelow School, Boston
and, Thomas Tapper
Instructor in musical composition and theory. Examiner in theory, in the American College of Musicians
Copyright 1895 by American Book Company

Found at a library sale

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07 Aug 99 - 01:45 AM (#102982)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day-August 7th
From: OSh

Beautiful, Kat!

This is a personal favorite.

I am the mountainy singer-- The voice of the peasants dream, The cry of the wind on the wooded hill, The leap of the fish in the stream.

Quite and love I sing-- The carn on the mountain crest, The cailin in her lover's arms, The child at its mothers breast.

Beauty and peace I sing-- The fire on the open hearth, the cailleach spinning at her wheel, The plough in the broken earth.

Travail and pain I sing-- The bride on the childing bed, The dark man laboring at his rhymes, The ewe in the lambing shed.

Sorrow and death I sing-- The canker come on the corn, The fisher lost in the mountain loch, The cry at the mouth of the morn.

No other life I sing, For I am the sprung of the stock, That broke the hilly land for bread, And built the nest in the rock!

--Joseph Campbell

John OSh

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07 Aug 99 - 09:30 AM (#103001)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day-August 7th
From: katlaughing

That's beautiful, John! Thanks for sharing it.

kat

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