Friday, November 14, 2008
Porcupines like trees. We therefore highly approve of this local project in Cameroon to replant trees in an area that has become deforested due to over-exploitation. (Good morning, Cameroon. It shall be such work as your descendants shall thank you for.)
George Wither says:
He that delights to Plant and Set,
Makes After-Ages in his Debt.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting”:
It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands as if [...]