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Binsey Poplars Gerard Manley Hopkins felled 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow & river & wind-wandering weed-winding […]
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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) – Louis Henry Vaquez at “La Pitié” hospital (1921), Oil on canvas, National Academy of Medicine, Paris The assistants take part in the general atmosphere and in the gestures of their chief and mentor, as they watch the patient, who constitutes the real focus of the painting; the lines drawn from the
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… Abraham Verghese discusses some of the consequences of not attending to our patients as persons. Luigi Giussani in The Religious Sense makes much the same point in quoting and discussing a passage of Alexis Carrel … “as everyone knows, few observations and much discussion are conducive to error; much observation and little discussion to
‘Of Gods and Men’ opens this weekend … … The New York Times review … America Magazine review … trailer … show times around the country … related post here
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A Balm for Gilead: Meditations on Spirituality and the Healing Arts by Daniel Sulmasy OFM MD PhD. One of the best lines … “Suffering is what remains when one’s control runs out.” (p 62) The funniest line … “Every honest wife should know that she will have no more control over her husband once he
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There is a balm in Gilead To make the wounded whole; There is a balm in Gilead To heal the sin-sick soul. Some times I feel discouraged, And think my work’s in vain, But then the Holy Spirit Revives my soul again. If you can’t preach like Peter, If you can’t pray like Paul, Just
There’s a man goin’ ’round, takin’ names There’s a man goin’ ’round, takin’ names An’ he took my father’s name An’ he leave my heart in pain There’s a man goin’ ’round, takin’ names (And he works through mother, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, etc.) Brother and sister, aunt and uncle Man goin’ ’round takin’ names
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light’s delay. With witness I speak this. But where I say Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament
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Constantine the Emperor, afflicted with leprosy, was advised to bathe himself in the blood of three thousand children as a therapeutic remedy for his illness. However, he refused to do so. This mix of history and legend tells that, after this refusal, he was healed by St. Sylvester, who appeared to him in a dream.
events which recur in history … an anachronism … ? Read More »
To this hath Fate reduced The form, that, when with life it beamed, To us heaven’s liveliest image seemed. O Nature’s endless mystery! Jonathan Galassi has a new translation of Leopardi’s poems … he and others discussed at the New York Encounter. On the Portrait of a Beautiful Woman CARVED ON HER MONUMENT. Such _wast_
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