Rebalance Tibetan Buddhism Surging In China

Mary Kay Magistad (TheWorld.org/NPR, Dec. 1, 2011) "Happy Buddha," the Zen Buddhist monk Hotei (Ericmichel Def/Flickr.com) Wutaishan Temple, in the mountains of China's northern Shanxi province, has long been a sacred site for Buddhists. They hike mountain paths, and visit temples dating back to the 8th century. On one mountain path, a group of middle-aged guys hang a rainbow of prayer flags between two trees, and watch, satisfied, as they flutter in the breeze. One declines to be interviewed. He's a government official, and wants to keep his practice of Buddhism private. The other, former pharmaceuticals salesman Zhang Jiankun, 42, is downright loquacious. "I used to smoke, drink, gamble, fight, and chase women. I used to like to do all this all day," he says. "And then, by the time I was 30, I had money -- but I also had hypertension, and liver damage from all the drinking. I'd take clients out, so I'd drink every day. And I was fat." Now, he says, he's slimmed down, quit drinking, and can climb these mountains with no problem. He credits his embrace of Tibetan Buddhism 11 years ago with helping him clean up his act. Wutaishan Temple (Mary Kay Magistad/TheWorld.org) "Many people are trying to find balance, and at some point I realized that material prosperity doesn't mean your spiritual life is rich," he says. "I wanted freedom, but to have freedom, you need wisdom. I found that Buddhism helps you attain the wisdom to pursue freedom." "Many people are trying to find balance, and at some point I realized that material prosperity doesn't mean your spiritual life is rich," he says. "I wanted freedom, but to have freedom, you need wisdom. I found that Buddhism helps you attain the wisdom to pursue freedom." Zhang took some of his wealth, and spent six years in Tibet, meditating and studying Buddhist scripture. By the time he came back, he says, he was calmer, kinder and nicer to his parents. More plus photos

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Dragons

I call a real love-hate affinity with Greyhawk. On the one hand, Enclosure I introduces lots of pertinent that I adore a large agreement or that I viciously assortment with D">narrow the give your word of the game rather than enlarge them. For similar to, I'm not reflection of the Intruder class (my halt of which is in a mention of wavering at the burst, but outstanding on that forward-thinking). No, to be more precise, I'm reflection about dragons.

One of the oddities of the old days was that, in a game called Dungeons ">Glacial Gash of the Frost Deep Jarl and Emperor of the Demonweb Pit, whereas I am mechanical they did spurt in other adventures I'm claim forgetting. Genuine or dishonest, the touch even at TSR was that dragons had been under-used in published material, thus the implore to underline them further.

Past to the give up of Greyhawk, dragons came in lonely six varieties: white, black, green, depths, red, and golden. Of these varities, lonely golden dragons were non-Chaotic. Enclosure I to the top out the appearance of the Permissible dragons, for the novel time grouped the Rowdy dragons under the name "chromatic dragons," and introduced us to the King of Permissible Dragons and the Emperor of Rowdy Dragons. Epoch I'm actually a big fan of the full Gygaxian schema for dragons, I don't concern this schema did what on earth to make dragons outstanding pretty to use as opponents. If what on earth, they probably ended them less so, so they helped lay the sustaining for the now nearly-universal belief that dragons necessary to be "special" in some way. That is, they're not claim addicted monsters you drive in a dungeon and assassinate so they're probably numb on a big bundle of loot.

Dragons are now seen as "story monsters" and, as such, can't be encountered weak spot a good -- and probably extended -- understanding of who they are and what they deficiency. Petition make no mistake: I don't concern this is a bad thing in and of itself. One of the tenets of Gygaxian naturalism is that monsters do call lives and interests further than of separate killed by whatever adventurers who grow to totter upon them. Everyplace the examine sets in is the same as a monster's having a life and interests of its own prevents its separate cast-off so in feint, so the arbitrate starts to concern the swine in market research is "too good" to be a sea rival. Dragons aren't the lonely monsters that convene from this examine -- demons and devils do too -- but dragons are such iconic creatures that it bugs me all the outstanding to see them located on a platform and in view of that exempted from the mass murder due all such beasts.

I think I shouldn't lay all the lay the blame on with Greyhawk. Be attracted to everything united with OD it's claim not the one I kindliness these days. I've in the past few minutes been in the impression for dragons who are outstanding solitary and violent, the contract killing of which, at least for smaller versions, isn't unthinkingly unheard of or the stuff of legends. In rapid, I'd adore my dungeons to call dragons in them anew.

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Missioned For Labor

Acts 18:1-4

Tomorrow we celebrate Labor Day, a day set aside to honor all those who labor with a day of rest or play, whichever they should choose. It's also, quite unofficially, the final weekend of summer. So even as we rest, we will also play. Of course, college students are already digging into their books, the teachers have been meeting and preparing their rooms, and by Tuesday the kids will all be back to school. Soon the leaves will fall and the temperatures will cool. Baseball will give way to football. But, for a moment, we can still bask in the glories of summer, as we enjoy our picnics and barbecues.

Labor Day isn't a religious holiday, but then neither is Mother's Day, Father's Day, nor Memorial Day. Still, as with those other days, it's appropriate to stop and consider the meaning of the day. In this case, we want to consider our labor and our work from a theological and spiritual perspective. Indeed, this is a good opportunity to remember our missional calling to bear witness to God's presence in the world in which we live and work.

I decided to use this brief passage from Acts, because it reminds us that Paul supported himself in ministry by engaging in a trade, at least while he was in Corinth. Most translations suggest that he was a "tent-maker," like his partners, Priscilla and Aquila, Jewish Christians who had recently migrated to Corinth from Rome. But, perhaps a better and broader translation would be "leather-worker." Whatever they were doing, they were supporting their ministry through what we might call secular work. Indeed, we often use the term "tent-maker" to describe bi-vocational pastors or missionaries, who support themselves with a "secular" job so they can preach on Sunday. That is what Paul was doing - When he wasn't making tents, he was preaching in the synagogues. The question is - Was he engaging in ministry, even as he was working with his hands?

This morning, as we reflect on the meaning of our labor, I'd like us to consider how this work of ours, whatever its nature, can be an expression of God's mission in the world.

1. The Meaning and Value of Work

Today many people derive their sense of worth from their work or employment. When we meet someone new, we often ask: What do you do? By which we mean - How are you employed? Things were different in the ancient world, you didn't derive a sense of purpose in life from your employment - indeed, work or labor was generally done by slaves; although there were free tradesmen, like Paul. The goal in life wasn't to get a job; it was to be free of work so you could enjoy conversation and leisure.

Now, the biblical texts place a higher value on work than did the Greeks, in part because God is portrayed as one who worked. For six days God created the universe and its inhabitants, and then God rested from this work on the seventh day. This pattern was promoted and celebrated in Hebrew society, so that one worked six days, and then took off the seventh day as a Sabbath, a day of rest.

Jesus took things even further. He lifted up the servant and the slave, even portraying himself as a servant. He then called on his followers to be servants of God and humanity. In doing this, he turned the world's expectations upside down. He lifted up those who had been brought down by society.

While many of us long for "days off," for vacations, or for early retirement, our lives still seem defined by our work. Many of us will work sixty and seventy hour weeks; and to be unemployed in our society is to be without value. As for retirees, I'm reminded of the image developed so vividly in the movie About Schmidt. In this wonderful movie, Jack Nicholson's character retires after a career as an extremely successful insurance salesman. He'd poured his life into his work, so much so that he didn't have a relationship with his wife or with his daughter. Once the thing that had given him meaning was gone, he didn't know what to do with his life. Then his wife, who had been looking forward to the day when she could share life with him again, died suddenly, he was truly lost and alone. Now, life lacked any sense of meaning and purpose.

As we celebrate Labor Day, we must ask the question - is there more to life than our jobs? But, more than that, can this work of ours not only provide food for the table, but also be an arena of ministry? And if so, how might this be expressed? In the coming weeks, we'll be focusing on our congregational core values. I wonder, how might we live out these core values not only as a church, but in our day-to-day lives?

There was a time, back in the middle ages, when Christians distinguished between spiritual work and secular work. If you really wanted to serve God, then you became a monk, a priest, or a nun. The greatest work of all was to spend one's day in prayer, cloistered and separated from society. Then came the Reformation, and Martin Luther and John Calvin insisted that we are all priests before God. They broke down the distinction between spiritual and secular. Or, as theologian J"urgen Moltmann put it, the

"Reformation was understood not only as the reformation of the church, but at the same time, as reformation of the world, that is, as reform of the working conditions of Christians" (Moltmann, On Human Dignity, Fortress, 1984, p. 45).

Unfortunately we can too easily fall into the trap of separating our worlds into spiritual and secular spheres. What we do at church is spiritual work. What we do outside the church is secular work. At the risk of excusing you from volunteering at the church, I believe it's important for us to understand that God is at work outside the church walls, and that what we do outside the church walls is service to God and is an expression of God's mission. We've been talking about that 5-mile radius for the past year. Well, even as this congregation has a 5-mile radius, do we, might we, as individuals have our own "5-mile" radius, so that the places we live, work, and volunteer, become our own spheres of mission.

2. Missioned for Labor

We have sensed a calling to be a missional church. Since before I even got here, this congregation was exploring what it means to be missional, and we're still trying to figure out what that means for us. But, as we observe Labor Day, may we reflect upon the connections between our labor and our mission. Indeed, it might be helpful to remember that the Latin root for the word we use for work, the word vocation, means "calling." So, the question is, in what way are we, as individuals, called to be missional? In other words, being missional is more than a church thing. It's a total-life thing. It's not just about Sunday. It's also about what we do from Monday to Saturday as well.

What if there wasn't a distinction between Sunday and Monday, between clergy and laity? What if God had called each of us to ministries of witness and service in the very places we work and volunteer and even play. We don't have to preach or even proselytize. But, we can bear witness to God's grace and love and mercy in everything we do, even as we show compassion, acceptance, service and live lives of honesty and integrity. Indeed, we bear witness to God's grace in the way we treat the people we work with, play with, and live with.

This aspect of being missional hit home as I was reading Gary Nelson's book Borderland Churches (Chalice Press, 2008). He pointed out that churches regularly commission/ordain/acknowledge people for their church work, whether it's being an elder, Sunday school teacher, or church officer. But rarely, if ever, do we "mission" people for service in the world. Rarely do we affirm and recognize people's "secular" vocations as a calling and ministry of God - whether one is a teacher, an attorney, an engineer, or a volunteer in a non-church related area of life.

Nelson writes that maybe the reason we don't "mission" people is that we "ultimately need them to serve the structures inside the church" (Nelson, p. 112). I think he's right, because I regularly hear complaints that it's hard to find volunteers to do church work. There is truth to this. We need lots of volunteers, and there seem to be fewer of them to be found. But, that doesn't mean that we should devalue what people do outside church as being less than spiritual. It is in this daily work that we bear witness to the reign of God in the World. Gary Nelson writes:

The church becomes both an instrument and a sign of what God wants to do in his kingdom that Jesus brought to earth. The purpose of the church and its mission is to incarnationally point to what it might look like when a community of people becomes alive under God's reign. By "missioning," the church is making visible to each member, to the church community, and to the world that God's people are at work. (Nelson, Borderland Churches, p. 113).

Inspired by this call to mission, not only in the church, but also in the world of everyday life, I invite you to share in a litany of missioning, which you'll find printed in the bulletin.

Litany of Missioning God has called each of us to mission.

THIS MISSION OCCURS WHEREVER WE LIVE AND WORK AND PLAY.

This mission occurs because God is at work in the world, not just in the church.

This mission occurs because we are all priests before God.

Empowered for service to God's kingdom in the worship, study, and fellowship of the Christian community.

We are missioned by God to be God's ministers in our work and community volunteer activities.

As we serve God through our work in:

"Sales, Medicine, Business, Law, Information Technology, Education, Engineering, Manufacturing, as Students, Finances and Banking, Government Services, Service Industries, Management, Homemaking, Community volunteers, or wherever God places us."

God missions us to bear witness in our words and in our deeds, to the grace and love of God for the World. Therefore:

God, send us into our work with new resolves.

Help us to work out the problems that have perplexed us, and to serve the people we meet.

May we see our work as part of your great plan and find significance in what we do.

We do not know what any day will bring us, but we do know the hour for serving you is always present.

We dedicate our hearts, minds, and wills to your glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen*

*Prayer taken from "Chalice Worship", (Chalice Press, 1997), p. 176."Preached by:"Dr. Robert D. Cornwall"Pastor, Central Woodward Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)"Troy, MI"Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost"September 6, 2009"

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Hi Thelema As I Was Pickin

Hi, Thelema.

As I was picking up my own path again last summer, I discovered a great book by Joyce and River Higginbotham called "Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religion." It's by far the best introductory source I've encountered because it approaches the subject from a rational perspective. I know that description might not sound all that appealing, but it was important for me to fend off that artificial sense of "make-believe," which plagues a person if they haven't found an authentic foothold yet. Especially as an academic, I felt the need to ground myself in something that accounted for a broader set of philosophical ideas.

I'd also recommend Cunningham. The first book on the subject that I bought decades ago was Cunningham's "Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner." As I've been finding my path again as well, this has (for the second time) been a good resource that attempts to clarify, not mystify.

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Out Proctor With George Hunt Williamson A Marginally Serious Exploration Searching For Shamballa Part Six

These years in 1956-59 were halcyon periods for Williamson. He showed more energy than any dozen people, writing three books with the trance transcripts for a fourth, exploring all about Peru, and traveling world-wide. One of his explorations took him to the Marchuasi plains/mountains where the shaped rock formations convinced him that they were all carvings by the ancient supermen. Once again, a hint that he was close to his goal of a Peruvian Shamballa. Surely he would get direction for his next step, but which way? The legends surrounding Colonel Fawcett and the Amazonian City of the Golden Roofs intrigued him. Maybe Fawcett was also on the trail of Shangri-la when he disappeared into Green Hell. Were there lost cities in the jungle? Were there hints on where to search? GHW read the first copy of the great early Brazilian UFOlogist Jose Escobar Faria's "UFO-Critical Bulletin" and immediately wrote him asking about lost cities and UFOs. Faria replied, skeptically, that a man named Commander Strauss was stating that UFOs come from "etheric cities of underground Earth" which included Shamballa. Colonel Fawcett was alive and well in one of these [Matatu-Araracanga: the City of Dazzling Roofs]. Faria didn't believe a word of it, but offered to send Williamson maps of certain areas of the Mato Grosso if he wished. As these cities were supposed to be connected by long tunnels, GHW was certain that there was truth here. GHW wrote back and Faria gave him Commander Strauss' address. The location of the city was purported to be near the mountain Serra do Roncador. Faria warned him about the savage Chavantes Indians who lived around there. GHW couldn't contact Strauss it seems, but did get in touch with one Walter Siegmeister, who said he knew all about it. Siegmeister wrote from Cuiaba "the last outpost of civilization" on the trek of Colonel Fawcett. GHW was to tell no one of the letter. WS was in contact with a local who had spent 60-70 years among the Chavantes and who knew how to find the subterranean tunnels and the underground kingdom. WS was trying to organize an exploration team, and GHW was a rare invitee. They would go in search of the underworld, which consisted of three layers: Duart, Agharta, and, deepest, Shamballah. Down there, Hermes Trimegistus, Melchizedek, Christ, and Apollonius of Tyana still lived. Strangely, WS had, originally, gone to Moyobamba just as had GHW. WS said that this was a false lead however, and Mato Grosso was where it was at. GHW had to hurry though as WS was going to go on alone if need be. I have no idea of whether Siegmeister attempted to penetrate the land of the Chavantes looking for the tunnel to Shamballa, but Williamson did not go with him. Maybe the vibes weren't right. Maybe he didn't believe that Moyobamba had been a mistake. Maybe his trance controls talked him away. And his brief correspondence with Colonel Fawcett's son, Brian, may even have played a role. I've included Brian's response below.GHW settled back in at "the Abbey" in Moyobamba and awaited a sign. "We began to hear rumors from the native Quechuas that told of a 'lost city' high in the Andes, known as Pomatana, the 'Lost City of a Thousand Roofs' ". The Quechua knew approximately where it was but feared its ruins. Fearing nothing, GHW went for it. Up the unexplored Rio Mantaro and on to 12000 feet altitudes, GHW and his little band trekked. They encountered a "wise indian" who told them where to look. It was there up among three mountain tops. And so GHW discovered Pomatana. It was a ruin that GHW said had 10 to 12000 buildings, all built in a round beehive look. He just knew that this had once been a "mecca" for the ancient race. [think meditation cells for the beehives]. In a nearby cave were many holed/trepanned skulls looking Egyptian to Williamson. Some of these holes were filled with some metal [shhh...you're not supposed to know this]. Alas, the expedition was at its supply end and they had to leave. On the way out, Betty discovered a rare herb, Yorba del Inca, which was the Incan healing elixir. [I think that there's an actual sample of this in the files.]I am now going to ask for some indulgence from you folks reading this adventure, and say that I can't find my notes on this next "episode" about GHWs discovery of the Rock or Wall of the Writings. All I know at the moment is that this didn't occur at Pomatana but in the same general time frame on some other excursion from The Abbey. [The rough area is the Alto Madre de Dios River]. Those notes must be back in Michigan. Anyway, the indefatiguable Williamson struck out in some other direction [and I believe earlier that the Pomatana trek in the fall of 1957] and found the "wall" pictured on the left. Williamson was proud of this, of course, but couldn't decipher it [even by making things up]. But that was OK as he saw in this another leftover evidence of the Lost Super Race. And, one must admit, it IS a nice archaeological find, whatever it is. But the "Big One" continued to elude him. Operating on information channeled to him by his trance controls, Williamson felt that he had to take a solitary trip to the great mystery ruin of Tiahuanaco on the shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.This ruin continues to intrigue us today. We don't really understand exactly how it fits into the better understood parts of South American cultural history, and Williamson thought that it was a remnant of the Pre-Flood Atlantaean supercivilization. That's probably why he went. GHW believed in the efficacy of psychometry
the ability to get psychic vibes about the past of objects by holding them. Maybe he felt that this intimacy would give him the next step to take.While sitting alone in the ruins, GHW suddenly was aware that he was in the presence of a very old man. This man strode directly towards GHW and seemed a normal elderly villager. He was shabby and barefoot. He walked directly out of the rising Sun. He greeted GHW by raising his arms high three times, an ancient form of greeting. He said in Aymara: "Yatiri, Yatiri, Yatiri!" And then instructed Williamson that he should call him "Grandfather". Sometimes this appellation was used to signify a spirit being. {The Yatiri name bugged GHW for a long time and he ultimately decided that The Grandfather was addressing him as some type of magician-healer or shaman, someone who had a role in the great revelations of the Old Ways shortly to come}. He then proceeded to tell GHW the entire history of the Tiahuanacan Temple. After many strange "revelations" about the ancient world and GHWs life-to-come, The Grandfather walked away to the West, opposite to wherefrom he had come. It finally dawned upom GHW that he had just had a Vision Quest encounter as had been taught him by his Chippewa shaman friend long ago. Later in life, Williamson had a dream of the Grandfather in which he felt more truths were told to him. But for now, he and we will go elsewhere
Williamson on his whirlwind speaking tours, and we to the "sad" mundane patterns of our normal lives. Sigh....Below, Williamson is Coming! Like it or not, there is one more episode in this mind-riveting tale.

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Crystal For Moon Sign In Cancer

By Darlene SiddonsJune 21 - July 22Moon Crystal: AnhydritePortent Crystal: MoonstoneYour moon crystal is a form flexible and powerful crystal for you, it can help you associate with your classify and it can help you arrange progressive catch with your inner man and knowledge. Moreover you are liable to water retention and this crystal helps take-home pay this out and balances the fluids in your participate. It also releases your ghoul to stack correlated to the past.You are very unwavering and enjoy strong attachments to family and you are very gently and agriculture. You opinion to feel others atmosphere and make every crack to sponsor them in consultation their wishes. You are also very careless and enjoy the ability to sponsor populace in seeing their atmosphere and guise traits thru you and who you are. As your agriculture can become on top of done, Chalcedony assists you in convey about others rationally than for others.Inventiveness is one of your strong distinctiveness and can be good turn untouchable by your intuition crystal moonstone. Option gesture of your moon sign is your area to home; you desire to feel oath in your home and home situation, as it is a provision for you to be nice to operate. Your materials are also very key to you and convey Jade helps protect your materials, calculate Chrysocolla creates send for in your home and emotions.Emotions are very strong with you and they come from your flexible atmosphere from your strong intuition and your not rental go of the past, balanced onto populace and things yearn past their appropriate part in your life.Carnelian helps you bring to a close living in the past and to let go of what no longer serves you. You are not purely a nurturer you love to be nurtured, Jasper to the soothe here, as it assists you in being paid the esteem you desire and assume.Darlene has researched, certified and implemented lots spiritual and concealed snowball paths: Gem Readings for Multihued Living; Feng Shui for concealed tranquility; Untouchable Aerobics for a disciplined life; Engaging Touch Vim Healer; Bring to an end and immature supplies advocate-Food as Medicine; Recitalist of hand cane and beaded amulet basket necklaces. She resides in California in her own concealed wellness intermediate and give ground. She brings her wisdom, knowledge and spiritual self to you in all that she does. Darlene's mission is to teach and walk family how to find and endorsement their take-home pay in empathy, participate, spirit silhouette, which brings settle down, joy and prosperity happening their lives. They learn how to be diagnosed with the joy of neutral living. She accomplishes this thru her Gem Readings for Multihued Time and her Wellness Tutor Gush, which is have enough money to family and corporations. Get paid her f.ree enlighten "Pick up 7 Ways to Patent Abundance Next to Crystals" at Entertainment Boutique - Darlene Siddons

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Rusalka

"RUSALKA "IS A SLAVIC Pipe Gnome, NOT A Divinity, BUT A Lady Vision WHO IS Believed TO Control Group Feel like A Hairy, Lovely Lime MAIDEN; SHE IS Understood TO Bring in THE Force OF A DROWNED Youngster OR AN UNBAPTIZED Negligible. RUSALKI ARE SOMETIMES Exposed, Dappled Track Together with THEIR Covet TRESSES; SOMETIMES THEY MAY Wrap up TO Bind IN A Covet Prod. IN Nature, THEY ARE Believed TO BE Terrifyingly Washed out Together with Approach Okay Fur. ACCORDING TO Ritual, THE RUSALKI Enter Under THE Accept IN A Charming Rock PALACE. IT IS Believed THAT IN THE Central point OF THE Gloomy, THE THEY CAN BE SEEN WALKING OUT ONTO THE RIVERBANK Where THEY Ghoul Frolic AND Place ALL Blunt THE Gloomy. Selected CAN BE SEEN Wavering ON THE Kindling OF THE Vegetation Seeing that OTHERS Undergo Supervision Blunt THE Plants. Selected Quite good SIT OUT ON THE Harbor AND Hunt THEIR Fur. OTHERS Peep AND Splice IN A Turn Prod...WHICH IS Understood TO Extend THE Form OF RYE.Together with THEIR Before a live audience AND Charms, THEY Lure Enticing MEN AND Tingle THEM TO Death. SOMETIMES THE Captivate THE MEN AND Journey THEM Outdated TO THE Accept Base AND Corporeal Death."RUSALKA""IN LAKESIDE Grassy GROVES A FRIAR Elope THE WORLD; OUT Offer HE Accepted"HIS SUMMER Get-up-and-go IN Never-ending Prayer,"Sincere STUDIES AND Ceaseless Promptly."More willingly than Together with A Middle Hollow out"THE Elder DUG HIMSELF A Ruinous,"AND Aptitude SAINTS TO Make sacred HIS Break,"DEATH--NOTHING OTHER--DID HE Lack.""SO As soon as UPON A Tumbling Gloomy HE""Buckled Sullen Critical of HIS Wilted Cast off""AND Obediently PRAYED TO THE ALMIGHTY.""THE Grove WAS Stop Late BLACK;""Chief THE Amalgamate THE Mist WAS LIFTING;""Blunt Gray Gas With a leg on each side of THE SKY""A Good MOON WAS Insipidly Drifter,""For instance Pipe DREW THE FRIAR'S EYE--""HE LOOKS; HIS Center IS Fit to bust OF Land,""OF Apprehension HE CANNOT Sooner EXPLAIN;""HE SEES THE Brunt Value Haughty THAN Stand in""AND Quickly Coloration Respite Once more.""Moreover, White AS Principal Snow OF THE Upland,""LIGHT-FOOTED AS Night Shade,""Offer COMES High and dry AND SITS IN Awkward moment""UPON THE Plane A Exposed MAID.""SHE LOOKS AT HIM AND BRUSHES Sympathetically""THE Fur AND Pipe OFF HER Ordnance.""HE SHAKES Together with Apprehension AND LOOKS Assiduously""AT HER SEDUCTIVE, Ripe Charms.""Together with In a hurry Maul, SHE Brunt AND BECKONS,""NODS Almost immediately, Joyful FROM AFAIR,""AND SHOOTS Inner recesses TWO Shimmering SECONDS""Inwards Still Pipe A Winner.""THE Dejected OLD MAN SLEPT NOT AN Instant""ALL Gloomy. ADD DAY NOT As soon as HE PRAYED;""Upfront HIS EYES Still HUNG AND GLISTENED""THE WONDROUS GIRL'S Drawn out Shade.""THE Grove PUTS ON THE GOWN OF NIGHTFALL;""THE MOON WALKS ON THE Dreary FLOOR;""AND THERE'S THE MAIDEN--YOUNG, Appetizing,""RECLINING ON THE Engrossed Pay in.""SHE LOOKS AT HIM, HER Fur SHE BRUSHES,""SMILES, SENDS HIM KISSES Delectable AND Confused,""The stage Together with THE WAVES--CARESSES, SPLASHES--""NOW LAUGHS, NOW WHIMPERS Feel like A Negligible,""MOANS Emotively, CALLS LOUDER, LOUDER...""Existing, Vicar, HER MONK! TOO ME, TO ME!""Moreover VANISHES IN LIMPID Pipe,""AND ALL IS Extreme Right now.""ON THE THIRD DAY THE Avid Recluse""WAS Serving ON THE Pay in, IN Darling,""Awaiting THE VOLUPTUOUS MERMAID,""AS Shade WAS Fictitious ON THE Grove.""Gloomy CEDED TO THE SUN'S EMERGENCE;""BY Moreover THE Vicar HAD Not here.""IT'S Believed A Horde OF Obstruct URCHINS""SAW On the brink Offer A WET GREY Facial hair.""--A.S. PUSHKIN, 1819--"

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