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| 2008.10.07
| Bruce Lewis
Posted on 10/06/2008 11:35:52 PM PDT by B-Chan
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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posted on
10/07/2008 12:11:56 AM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: sockmonkey; B-Chan
Thanks for posting this. I love Chesterton.I love Chesterton too, but I have never read any of his poetry. What is this from?
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posted on
10/07/2008 12:13:22 AM PDT
by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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.)
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posted on
10/07/2008 12:18:19 AM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: B-Chan
I wondered who it was. It seemed like a translation from Spanish or Italian, written 300-400 years ago.
But then, perhaps Chesterton intended it to read that way.
Thanks for posting it. Now I can say I've read Chesterton!
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
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posted on
10/07/2008 12:29:57 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(i can see now why despots always purge the media)
To: lentulusgracchus
Try “The Man Who Was Thursday” next....(novella).
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posted on
10/07/2008 12:56:55 AM PDT
by
baa39
(The price of liberty is eternal vigilence.)
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.)
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posted on
10/07/2008 1:00:30 AM PDT
by
baa39
(The price of liberty is eternal vigilence.)
To: baa39
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posted on
10/07/2008 1:06:25 AM PDT
by
neb52
To: B-Chan
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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!
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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: Rummyfan
Just a few years before, the Christians at Malta defeated a massive Ottoman invasion force, too. Doesn’t get the same “ink” as Lepanto, but given the odds, it was an even more impressive victory.
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posted on
10/07/2008 4:31:28 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: LS
Lepanto gets the ink, because it was the finality, the exclamation mark and the point of decline for the Turks. There was also an invasion force into Hungry that got chewed up during a drawn out siege at this time.
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posted on
10/07/2008 4:56:19 AM PDT
by
neb52
To: B-Chan
Could I use this graphic on my blog?
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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.
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posted on
10/07/2008 7:21:21 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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