1 posted on
10/06/2008 11:35:53 PM PDT by
B-Chan
To: B-Chan
A great vicotry for Christian Europe over the Turks. Well documented by Victor Davis Hansen in his book Carnage and Culture.
2 posted on
10/06/2008 11:55:35 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: B-Chan
Thanks for posting this. I love Chesterton.
To: B-Chan
Two thumbs up for the greatest verse ever written.
4 posted on
10/06/2008 11:57:12 PM PDT by
Byron_the_Aussie
(Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
To: All
The author of this poem is, of course, G.K. Chesterton. Sorry I left that off, everybody!
5 posted on
10/06/2008 11:58:38 PM PDT by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: B-Chan
Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,
Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,
Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,
The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall
6 posted on
10/07/2008 12:11:56 AM PDT by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: B-Chan
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.
We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,
Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done.
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palacesfour hundred years ago:
It is she that saith not 'Kismet'; it is she that knows not Fate;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey at the gate!
It is she whose loss is laughter when she counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon her, that our peace be on the earth."
For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar,
(Doña Sara of Alaska is going to the war.)
8 posted on
10/07/2008 12:18:19 AM PDT by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: B-Chan
i knew you posted this before I looked
as we used to say
Bump.
to a battle that ranks with Thermopylae and the sinking of the Spanish Armada as pivotal for our culture
10 posted on
10/07/2008 12:29:57 AM PDT by
wardaddy
(i can see now why despots always purge the media)
To: B-Chan
Thanks be to the Holy Mother of God whose intercession secured the Christian victory and stayed off the enemy for 400 years. Now we are at war again.
Our Lady of Lepanto, pray for us.
Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, pray for us.
(And October 7 is also my birthday, so spare me any anti-Catholic flames, thanks.)
12 posted on
10/07/2008 1:00:30 AM PDT by
baa39
(The price of liberty is eternal vigilence.)
To: B-Chan
14 posted on
10/07/2008 1:48:28 AM PDT by
GOP Poet
To: B-Chan
All things in time, sir.
Also,
Have some Emerson.
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deeds redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.”
To: B-Chan
Thanks for that! Lepanto was a very narrow run thing,and without Don Juan of Austria leading the fight and willing to risk all on one great throw of the dice, who know what the outcome would have been.
To hold together an under financed coalition of fractious people with disparate national interests was something.
Great poem; never read it before!
16 posted on
10/07/2008 4:15:12 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: B-Chan
Could I use this graphic on my blog?
19 posted on
10/07/2008 7:10:27 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)
To: B-Chan
Brilliant commemoration of an earlier battle in the War on Islamic Terrorism.
20 posted on
10/07/2008 7:21:21 AM PDT by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: B-Chan
24 posted on
10/07/2008 8:23:09 AM PDT by
Salvation
( †With God all things are possible.†)
To: B-Chan
Pray the Rosary.
Pray without ceasing.
25 posted on
10/07/2008 8:23:55 AM PDT by
Salvation
( †With God all things are possible.†)
To: B-Chan
Thanks. We can never get too much Chesterton.
30 posted on
10/07/2008 10:59:37 AM PDT by
who_would_fardels_bear
(The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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