<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">In case you missed the famous Tennyson quote from <i>Morte d'Arthur</i>, here it is:</div><div><pre><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "> </font><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="4">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."</font></pre></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">The O:E was what it was for just a brief moment in history.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">One could say that the Mystery took it out of being when its brief moment yielded to something new.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">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.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">Quoting Shakespeare's
King Henry V before the Battle of Agincourt (1415),</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><font size="+1" style="font-family: Times; "> We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;</font><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><font size="+1" style="font-family: Times; "> For he to-day that sheds his blood with me</font><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><font size="+1" style="font-family: Times; "> Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,</font><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><font size="+1" style="font-family: Times; "> This day shall gentle his condition;</font><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><font size="+1" style="font-family: Times; "> And gentlemen in England
now-a-bed</font><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><font size="+1" style="font-family: Times; "> Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,</font><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><font size="+1" style="font-family: Times; "> And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks</font><br style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><font size="+1" style="font-family: Times; "> That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">Marshall</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; ">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.<br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; position: fixed; "></div>
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