Sunday, March 5, 2006
[1770 - British sentries at Boston Customs House shoot into crowd killing four civilians]
[1770 - African-American sailor Crispus Attucks was the first to fall]
[1908 - Rex (Reginald Carey) Harrison, Academy Award actor, born in Huyton, Lancashire, England,]
[1946 - Winston Churchill delivers famous Iron Curtain Speech at Fulton, Missouri]
Nothing Special
A wise and dear mentor sent william his favorite poem:
The Waves of the Setsu River
Mount Ro and the misty rains
and the waves of the River Setsu;
Before I had been there, my thousand
longings never ceased.
Then I went -- and came back;
Nothing Special.
Mount Ro and the misty rains
and the waves of the River Setsu.
Sotoba (Su Tung-p'o)
11th Century Poet
William's Whimsical Words:
I have not been to Mount Ro,
But I have felt its misty rains on my cheek.
I have not visited the River Setsu,
But I have heard the rippling of its waves.
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