[Oe List ...] The old Order passing away

[Randy Williams]

...called poetic justice.

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 1, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Randy Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I guess that could be c
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Oct 1, 2012, at 10:11 AM, "W. J." <synergi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> In case you missed the famous Tennyson quote from Morte d'Arthur, here it is:
>>  And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:
>>  "The old order changeth, yielding place to new
>>  And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
>>  Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."
>> The O:E was what it was for just a brief moment in history.
>> One could say that the Mystery took it out of being when its brief moment yielded to something new.
>> 
>> The spirit warriors who survive to this day remember that historical moment with awe and reverence as a turning point in human consciousness, and (at whatever personal cost) are among the privileged company that was called to participate.
>> 
>> Quoting Shakespeare's King Henry V before the Battle of Agincourt (1415),
>> 
>>     We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
>>     For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
>>     Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
>>     This day shall gentle his condition;
>>     And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
>>     Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
>>     And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
>>     That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
>> 
>> Marshall
>> 
>> I was privileged to have a great English teacher in high school, BTW. She's long gone, but her influence was profound and her memory is cherished by her students to this day.
>> 
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