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Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :

Happy Hannukah to everyone too!

Merry Solstice, for good measure!

And a very Joyous December 25th so nobody gets left out.

[Smile]

Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :

Merry Christmas!

Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :

Happy birthday, Isaac Newton!

Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :

Merry Newton Day!

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

In honor of the holiday fig newtons

I hate aol.

[ December 25, 2003, 10:37 PM: Message edited by: Dragon ]

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

quote:

The Divine Image

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love,
All pray in their distress:
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy Pity Peace and Love,
Is God our father dear:
And Mercy Pity Peace and Love,
Is Man his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

Then every man of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine
Love Mercy Pity Peace.

And all must love the human form,
In heathen, turk or jew.
Where Mercy, Love & Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.

quote:

A Divine Image

Cruelty has a Human Heart
And Jealousy a Human Face
Terror, the Human Form Divine
And Secrecy, the Human Dress

The Human Dress, is forged Iron
The Human Form, a fiery Forge.
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd
The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.

Merry Christmas, everyone. [Smile]

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

Adapted by John Rutter from a Robert Herrick poem. My absolute favorite Christmas poem.

quote:
What sweeter music can we bring
Than a carol, for to sing
The birth of this our heav'nly King?
Awake the voice! Awake the string!

Dark and dull night, fly hence away,
And give the honour to this day
That sees December turn'd to May.

Why does the chilling winter's morn
Smile, like a field beset with corn?
Or smell like a meadow newly shorn
Thus on the sudden?

Come and see
The cause, why things thus fragrant be:
'Tis He is born, whose quick'ning birth
Gives life and luster, public mirth,
To heaven and the underearth

We see Him come, and know Him ours,
Who, with His sunshine, and His showers,
Turns all the patient ground to flowers.

The darling of the world is come,
And fit it is, we find a room
To welcome Him. The nobler part
Of all the house here, is the heart,

Which we will give Him; and bequeath
This holly, and this ivy wreath,
To do Him honor; who's our King,
And Lord of all this reveling.

I hope this year is ending wonderfully for all of you!! [Big Grin]

Merry Christmas.

Posted by Gottmorder (Member # 5039) on :

Have a <Happy/Merry/Good/Great<choose appropriate>> <Insert Holiday of choice here>

[Big Grin]