FORGETTING THE REFORMATION Seen from the high cutting the sky drifts white cotton over dance-floors of water either side the shady creek that trickles down country lagoons gummed with water...
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but that it profited no one else. He granted that speaking in tongues could engage the spirit, but it left the mind barren. In contrast, the one who prayed in comprehensible speech did a service to...
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creating the E-8, but to avoid dominating the proceedings the United States should invite another country, like Canada, to host it and chair the first meeting. The second initiative would be to...
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The Statistics of Good Chaplain General (R.C.) Archbishop Mannix of Melbourne, he who had a bog-oak footstool so his slipper might touch Irish soil first, when alighting from his carriage saved,...
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A WILD & SECRETIVE THING Harold Isbell Les Murray has brought out this new collection of poems little more than a year after his Learning Human: Selected Poems, a watershed in Murray's...
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from. And in its place comes this wonderful, unconditional love, now aborted before they can be born. an unburdening from the hunger for perfection." Ninety percent of Down's...
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Les Murray Incorrigible Grace Saint Vincent de Paul, old friend, my sometime tailor, I daresay by now you are feeding the rich in Heaven. From The Rabbiter's Bouncy. © 1991, by Les...
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Les Murray Poetry and Religion Religions are poems. They concert our daylight and dreaming mind, our emotions, instinct, breath and native gesture into the only whole thinking: poetry....
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