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Date Posted: 16:31:30 10/17/07 Wed
Author: michael
Subject: Re: Halloween
In reply to: Urizen Jones 's message, "Re: Halloween" on 15:55:38 10/16/07 Tue

>
>>as I move around London, I see so many people with
>>cans of strong lager, during the morning or middle of
>>the day. I think there are so many alcoholics now.
>>
>>It just seems to suggest something fundementally
>>wronmg with a society if so many turn to drink and
>>drugs, or other addictions like gambling, shopping etc
>
>
>
>T'was ever thus:
>
>London
>
>I wander through each chartered street,
>Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
>And mark in every face I meet,
>Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
>
>In every cry of every man,
>In every infant's cry of fear,
>In every voice, in every ban,
>The mind-forged manacles I hear:
>
>How the chimney-sweeper's cry
>Every blackening church appalls,
>And the hapless soldier's sigh
>Runs in blood down palace-walls.
>
>But most, through midnight streets I hear
>How the youthful harlot's curse
>Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
>And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.


Yup, thats London.Not so many chimney sweeps, but we do love our harlots. What a great word. What does it mean? What is this 'har' and why have some people got lots of it?

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