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The Pride of Nations

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps
and builded parapets and trenches there,
And [...]

January 17, 1994, 4:30:55 am
34° 12.80′ N, 118° 32.22′ W

The Music of the Spheres
(Following the Northridge earthquake of January 17, 1994)
I.
I was browsing through the essays of Montaigne not long ago,
Reclining in the shadow of the century-old oak that shades my home,
Half drowsing in the warmth of a hazy winter day
In the city of the angels, where the sun first strikes the Ring of [...]

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