tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post2424000838959916029..comments2024-03-28T00:47:48.409-07:00Comments on Lone Star Parson: Advent Poetry, InnitLSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-60886282490467400772016-12-12T10:18:28.436-08:002016-12-12T10:18:28.436-08:00Inspiring, truly. Here's my own poor offering ...Inspiring, truly. Here's my own poor offering for the season:<br /><br />And the Word was with God...<br /><br />Well before the twentieth century, when books were bound in leather and vellum and the like,<br />And were printed with genuine metal type whether iron or lead-based, leaving an imprint<br />A raised area on the back and front of each page, there were millions of different titles made<br />Millions of different books printed, with who knows what wisdom lost between their pages?<br />I'm not exaggerating. Have you ever seen photos of the libraries of the old schools of Europe,<br />Whether in Spain or England or Ireland, to name a few? Or of the noble houses: good old<br />Duke of Marlborough having but one? The sheer quantities on display are beyond staggering,<br />And then there are the "rare" books, hidden from view. Why are they rare, and not visible?<br />Surely then the handwritten manuscripts through the ages, in their great variety are not few.<br />And what of lost carvings, lost pressed mud, and the possible lost works of lost civilizations?<br />How much has turned to dust in Timbuktu, or Darjeeling, or been burned in lofty Tibet<br />Or burned in Alexandria, or Byzantium, by hostile barbarians thinking themselves the best<br />And in need of no teachings from others? And what of the lost Mayan codices, priestly banned,<br />And what of countless other writings, from China and Japan and God literally knows where else?<br />We are so wise, we have the internet, we have computers and smart phones and smart pads<br />Which bring to us a tiny fraction of a fraction of a distillation of a faint whiff of all that majesty,<br />Don't get me started on oral traditions from long vanished tribes or this story will never end...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13317820014937752897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-12772613910658429082016-12-12T06:46:49.178-08:002016-12-12T06:46:49.178-08:00Linda, I thought that was an exellent bit of writi...Linda, I thought that was an exellent bit of writing. <br /><br />God bless!LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-91096736482587286972016-12-11T18:24:02.247-08:002016-12-11T18:24:02.247-08:00Thank you, Parson. God bless and Merry Christmas.Thank you, Parson. God bless and Merry Christmas.LindaGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12203719919661519350noreply@blogger.com