The Year That Was
A 19th-century poem from Walt Whitman. I don't know what year he was writing about, but I imagine it could be most any year. I think it fits 2008 quite well:
Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me!
Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,
A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me,
Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
And sullen hymns of defeat?
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/logr/log_158.html
One year in 40+ seconds
Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me!
Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,
A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me,
Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
And sullen hymns of defeat?
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/logr/log_158.html
One year in 40+ seconds
posted by mac | 8:23 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Michael,
That is a cool video, thanks for sharing.
Dennis
Hey Michael - Nice video, thanks for sharing it... as it happened, I was listening to "Make it Nice," Marks song, and it was an interesting, peaceful, combination!!! A double shot of a good, really good, thing!!! Peace in the new year, john
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