[AlbionGirl]

Early morning ping, Poet.

Agree w/Clancy; Pres. Bush is a good man. Also have my misgivings about Iraq, but think it's still too early to tell if 'mistake' turns out not to be a mistake and begins the transformation of the region. If that's the case, look for Pres. Bush in the History books alongside Lincoln, Roosevelt, etc.

BTW, VPoet, are you a Edwin Arlington Robinson fan?

"Miniver Cheevey (sp?) child of scorn,
grew lean as he assailed the seasons...

Beautiful language, eh?

[Veracious Poet]

We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its own completeness agitates And undetermines us; we do not feel -- We dare not feel it yet -- the splendid shame Of uncreated failure; we forget, The while we groan, that God's accomplishment Is always and unfailingly at hand.

Tumultuously void of a clean scheme Whereon to build, whereof to formulate, The legion life that riots in mankind Goes ever plunging upward, up and down, Most like some crazy regiment at arms, Undisciplined of aught but Ignorance, And ever led resourcelessly along To brainless carnage by drunk trumpeters.

Edwin Arlington Robinson was a great poet.