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百年三万六千日, 一百须饮三百杯

A day sat by a telephone
That doesn’t ring,
A night without any wine;
Music of Venice,
Dreams of Rome,
The past is the future,
But why not now?

Non enim in arcu meo confidam

For I will not trust in my bow
It is not my sword that shall help me;
But it is thou that savest us from our enemies:
and puttest them to confusion that hate us.
We make our boast of God all day long;
and will praise thy Name for ever.

Behold, what manner of love

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

(Excerpt: I John iii, morning reading for today)

Age of Heroes

I

They said that the age of heroes is gone,
Epics are history and poetry of the past;
But I didn’t believe them.

They said that it was a new age,
An epoch of bottom lines and practicalities,
Where greed is virtue rather than vice,
Where prudence, integrity, and honor
Were to be admired, but not emulated.

II

It is a new world, a world of the highest bidder,
A brave new world. Abram sacrifices Issac on
The altar of greed, with the knife of his soul;
In Plouer-sur-Rance, church bells toll for
A proud fallen aristocrat.

In Shijiazhuang as in Hong Kong
3 days before Christmas, a woman is tried.
She saw no evil, and for the sins of others,
Some would have her hung.

III

A king is born, and the holy innocents die.

IV

“吾去岁中言事得罪，又不能逆道苟时， 为千古罪人也。”

V

But why, what evil hath Jesus done?
None.
Which is why he must die.