To: mathprof
Baltimore is a horror story. One of the worst urban areas I’ve seen.
I visited Edgar Allan Poe’s house and graveyard when I was there on business. A ghetto has grown around it.
Good crabs though.
To: Mr. Peabody
Memory
G. K. Chesterton
If I ever go back to Baltimore,
The city of Maryland,
I shall miss again as I missed before
A thousand things of the world in store,
The story standing in every door
That beckons with every hand.
I shall not know where the bonds were riven
And a hundred faiths set free,
Where a wandering cavalier had given
Her hundredth name to the Queen of Heaven,
And made oblation of feuds forgiven
To Our Lady of Liberty.
I shall not travel the tracks of fame
Where the war was not to the strong;
When Lee the last of the heroes came
With the Men of the South and a flag like flame,
And called the land by its lovely name
In the unforgotten song.
If ever I cross the sea and stray
To the city of Maryland,
I will sit on a stone and watch or pray
For a strangers child that was there one day:
And the child will never come back to play,
And no-one will understand.
The tyrants heel is on thy shore
36 posted on
08/28/2011 11:36:11 AM PDT by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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