Dedicated to the one I love

Greetings party of one. It's been a long sabbatical. Enjoy the following and remember that there is only one man who sticks closer than a brother, the one true God and Savior Jesus Christ, lover of our soul.

You can have my heart Lord, because I know you don't mind broken things. Thank you for binding my wounds and healing my deepest ire and ills...
Blessed Son of God I steal away to you, always.
Yours...


Longfellow Poems 1807-1882

The Arrow and the Song

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

HYMN TO THE NIGHT.

I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls!I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls!
I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above;The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.
I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes,That fill the haunted chambers of the Night Like some old poet's rhymes.
From the cool cisterns of the midnight air My spirit drank repose;The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,-- From those deep cisterns flows.
O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before!Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more.
Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer! Descend with broad-winged flight,The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night!