tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post131166263779764539..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Happy Birthday, Stephanie!Anastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77348365934859994612010-07-18T15:35:33.732-07:002010-07-18T15:35:33.732-07:00A wonderful poem. :-)A wonderful poem. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-5316561387330415582010-07-18T06:22:21.936-07:002010-07-18T06:22:21.936-07:00Friendship has replaced love in my life, as it did...Friendship has replaced love in my life, as it did in the life of one of my favourite poets, Alexander Pope. He wrote about it, I write about it. Like love, its subtle delianations are always somewhat defective. Here is a poem by another favourite poet of mine.<br /><br /><br /><b>Law, Like Love. By W. H. Auden.</b><br /><br /><i>Law, say the gardeners, is the sun,<br />Law is the one<br />All gardeners obey<br />To-morrow, yesterday, to-day.<br /><br />Law is the wisdom of the old,<br />The impotent grandfathers feebly scold;<br />The grandchildren put out a treble tongue,<br />Law is the senses of the young.<br /><br />Law, says the priest with a priestly look,<br />Expounding to an unpriestly people,<br />Law is the words in my priestly book,<br />Law is my pulpit and my steeple.<br /><br />Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose,<br />Speaking clearly and most severely,<br />Law is as I've told you before,<br />Law is as you know I suppose,<br />Law is but let me explain it once more,<br />Law is The Law.<br /><br />Yet law-abiding scholars write:<br />Law is neither wrong nor right,<br />Law is only crimes<br />Punished by places and by times,<br />Law is the clothes men wear<br />Anytime, anywhere,<br />Law is Good morning and Good night.<br /><br />Others say, Law is our Fate;<br />Others say, Law is our State;<br />Others say, others say<br />Law is no more,<br />Law has gone away.<br /><br />And always the loud angry crowd,<br />Very angry and very loud,<br />Law is We,<br />And always the soft idiot softly Me.<br /><br />If we, dear, know we know no more<br />Than they about the Law,<br />If I no more than you<br />Know what we should and should not do<br />Except that all agree<br />Gladly or miserably<br />That the Law is<br />And that all know this<br />If therefore thinking it absurd<br />To identify Law with some other word,<br />Unlike so many men<br />I cannot say Law is again,<br /><br />No more than they can we suppress<br />The universal wish to guess<br />Or slip out of our own position<br />Into an unconcerned condition.<br />Although I can at least confine<br />Your vanity and mine<br />To stating timidly<br />A timid similarity,<br />We shall boast anyvay:<br />Like love I say.<br /><br />Like love we don't know where or why,<br />Like love we can't compel or fly,<br />Like love we often weep,<br />Like love we seldom keep.</i>Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-91198216398082255222010-07-12T17:28:09.123-07:002010-07-12T17:28:09.123-07:00You bet!You bet!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-60608175833679395512010-07-12T17:00:46.555-07:002010-07-12T17:00:46.555-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-23730014849854466272010-07-12T17:00:05.183-07:002010-07-12T17:00:05.183-07:00Believe me, Adam, we shall. We are Fire and Dynam...Believe me, Adam, we shall. We are Fire and Dynamite together. :-))Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-66400441893479837702010-07-12T16:52:11.532-07:002010-07-12T16:52:11.532-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.com