Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

To SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY, my favorite poem for you...



THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,


And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.



And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet's wings.



I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart's core.
 
--William Butler Yeats

3 comments:

TAO said...

When JFK was campaigning for the Presidency we lived on the south side of Philly and he shook my mothers hand and kissed me (I was a baby).

The one gift that John, Bobby, and Teddy gave this nation, as a whole, was the vision of what we can do, what we can change, and what we can become.

They truly created a national vision of 'Camelot' and without them there would be no Reagan and a 'shining city' and no Obama and 'hope' and 'change.'

They taught us to aspire to greatness to dream the big dream.

They were, just like all of us, humans but they dared to believe that we could be, should be, and would be so much more....

For OUR sake, lets not lose that belief.

dmarks said...

Nice to see some mindless Bush-bashing here.

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