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SAVE THOU, MY ROSE....

O, never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify.
As easy might I from myself depart,
As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels I return again,
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.

Never believe, though in my nature reign'd ,
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stain'd,
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;
For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.
William Shakespeare/ Sonnet CIX


~Meeting at Night~

The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.

Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of alighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
Robert Browning







Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
There has never been a more literally awesome
artist than Michelangelo: awesome in the scope of
his imagination, awesome in his awareness of the
significance--the spiritual significance--of beauty.

Beauty was to him divine, one
of the ways God communicated Himself to humanity
It is the Sistine Ceiling that
displays Michelangelo at the full stretch of his
majesty.He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel from 1508 to 1512, commissioned by Pope Julius II.





*David*

Gigantic marble, started in 1501 and completed in
1504 Michelangelo began work on the colossal
figure of David in 1501, and by 1504 the sculpture (standing at 4.34m/14 ft 3 in tall) was in place outside the Palazzo Vecchio.

The choice of David was supposed to reflect the power and determination of Republican Florence and was under constant attack from supporters of the usurped Medicis. In the 19th century the statue was moved to the Accademia.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.
`I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew;
And on thy cheek a fading rose
Fast withereth too.'
`I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful-a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
`I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
I set her on my pacing steed
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sideways would she lean, and sing
A faery's song.
`She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said,
"I love thee true!"
`She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore;
And there I shut her wild, wild eyes
With kisses four.
And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dreamed-Ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dreamed
On the cold hill's side.
John Keats








~ATTIDUTE~
Words can never adequately convey the incredible
impact of our attitude toward life. The longer
I live the more convinced I become that life is
10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we
respond to it.

I believe the single most significant
decision I can make on a day~to~day
basis is my choice of attitude. It is more
important than my past, my education, my bankroll,
my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other
people think of me or say about me, my
circumstances, or my position.

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress.
It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope.
When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier
too high, no valley to deep, no dream too extreme,
no challenge too great for me.
Charles R. Swindoll

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