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Date Posted: 03:36:33 10/21/01 Sun
Author: spW >^. .^<
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Re: THE MEASURE OF A MAN
In reply to: WindWalker 's message, "THE MEASURE OF A MAN" on 12:39:46 10/19/01 Fri

to listen/read Kahil G.
when he evermore,
speaks these words
"....Almustafa was silent,
and he looked away toward the hills and toward
the vast ether, and there was a battle in his
silence.
Then he said: "My friends and my road-
fellows, pity the nation that is full of be-
liefs and empty of religion.
"Pity the nation that wears a cloth it
does not weave, eats a bread it does not
harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not
from its own winepress.
"Pity the nation that acclaims the bully
as hero, and that deems the glittering con-
queror bountiful.
"Pity a nation that despises a passion in
its dream, yet submits in its awakening.
"Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not
except among its ruins, and will rebel nor
save when its neck is laid between the
sword and the block.
"Pity the nation whose statesman is a
fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and
whose art is the art of patching and mim-
icking.
"Pity the nation that welcomes its new
ruler with trumpetings and farewells him
with hootings, only to welcome another
with trumpetings again.
"Pity the nation whose sages are dumb
with years and whose strong men are yet in
the cradle.
"Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation."

AS THE MIDDLE EAST HAS TAKEN AWAY
IT CAN STRENGTHEN OUR FAITHS
IT GIVES it BACK WITH KAHLIL GIBRAN
COMING FROM THE PAST, is what, with *smiles* i & i SAY
***
He said as well
".....Often times we call Life bitter names,
but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark.
And we deem her empty and un-
profitable, but only when the soul goes
wandering in desolate places, and the
heart is drunken with overmindfulness of
self."
From pg9 of "The Garden of the Prophet"
and his earier prose, was on page fourteen
"THE GARDEN OF THE PROPHET"
***

......as WindWalker, ' HOPE ' and so forth.....&*_*&

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