This from 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Wish. Starts out thus: Well then; I now do plainly see
This busy world and I shall ne'er agree.

-- Randal (randal@rhyme.cjb.net), December 08, 2001

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Randal, Thanks I like that! Isn't it something to think that someone way back then had the same feelings that I do now!

-- tren (trendlespin@msn.com), December 09, 2001.

Tren, it is amazing, isn't it? I interpret it as one more sign that the human being isn't an evolutionary creature, but one whose nature has remained the same since the Beginning. That's why the story of redemption still has so much to say to us today. If we think Shakespeare, Plato, and so many others still speak to modern man, something of divine origin does much more so. Oops, I took that idea in a different direction than your comments, but I've been reading Jesus' woes to the Pharisees and scribes in Luke 11.37-54, and so these things are on my mind.

-- Randal (randal@rhyme.cjb.net), December 09, 2001.