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- From: rcrowley@donne.zso.dec.com (Rebecca Crowley)
- Subject: first post -- C&C welcome
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:04:10 GMT
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- Villanelle variant, sort of. Haven't written much in a while, but
- got a phrase stuck in my head, and this is what I usually do with
- those. Newsreader address doesn't work: rcrowley@zso.dec.com does.
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- Oh come along, come play Seeker with me!
- Let none make us live as we're born to be;
- we will let nothing hide what we would see.
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- This is no game; no end is found this way:
- the pleasure and the profit is in play.
- Oh come along, come play Seeker with me!
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- Come, let's mock, ask and listen -- have it out
- with believers; we'll insist upon doubt,
- we will let nothing hide what we would see.
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- You say in myth the journey ends at home;
- I find the lesson happens while we roam.
- Oh come along, come play Seeker with me!
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- Truth, beauty, answers, knowledge are not owed.
- We must demand them, nag, yes, we must goad:
- we will let nothing hide what we would see.
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- Now, and then, and all along the way, we
- will different things believe -- we won't agree.
- Oh come along, come play Seeker with me!
- We will let nothing hide what we would see.
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- Rebecca Crowley rcrowley@zso.dec.com Standard disclaimers apply
- "Curiosity never killed anything except a few hours."
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