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THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI
'A cold coming we had of it ,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey :
The ways deep and weathers sharp,
The very dead of winter.'
And the camels galled, sore footed , refractory,
Lying down down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palace on the slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbat.
Then the camel man cursing and grumbling
And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And then night fires going out , and the lack of shelters ,
And the cities hostile and towns unfriendly
And villagers dirty an charging high prices :
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With voices singing in our ears, saying
That was all our folly.
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snowline, smelling of vegetation,
With a running stream and a water mill beating the darkness
And three trees on the low sky
An old white horse galloped in the meadow
Then we came to a tavern with vine leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine skins
But there was no information so we continued
And arriving at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place (you may say) satisfactory
All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all the way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence no doubt. I had seen Birth and Death.
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our Death.
We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms.
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispention.
With an alien people clutching there gods.
I should be glad of another Death.
2006-10-18 12:19:05
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answered by akevsr 1
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Sell the camera, silly! That way you can get your computer fixed and e-mail pictures of babbies you downloaded from the interweb. Those babbies will not be covered with dog saliva and will therefore not get you in trouble with DYFS.
2016-05-21 23:16:57
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answered by Anonymous
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