I'm soliciting guesses, and I can see why you think this...but it isn't.
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, WILLIAM K. COOPER wrote:
> Darlene,
> Except for the last line, which sounds like an intimacy with
> oppression, I would GUESS Aldous Huxley. I hope you are soliciting guesses!
>
> Ken Cooper
>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Darlene Sybert wrote:
> >
> > These mighty workmen of our later age,
> > Who, with a broad highway, have ovrbridged
> > The froward chaos of futurity,
> > Tamed to their bidding; they who have the skill
> > To manage books, and things, and make them act
> > On infant minds as surely as the sun
> > Deals with a flower; the keepers of our time,
> > The guides and wardens of our faculties,
> > Sages who in their prescience would control
> > All accidents, and to the very road
> > Which they have fashioned would confine us down,
> > Like engines...
> >
> > Darlene Sybert
> > University of Missouri, Columbia (English Dept)
> > ****************************************************************************
> > ...in the unreasoning progress of the world
> > A wiser spirit is at work for us,
> > A better eye...most prodigal
> > Of blessings, and most studious of our good,
> > Even in what seem our most unfruitful hours..
> > *****************************************************************************
> >
> >
> >
>
Darlene Sybert
University of Missouri, Columbia (English Dept)
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...The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing... -Keats 1819
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On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, WILLIAM K. COOPER wrote:
> Darlene,
> Except for the last line, which sounds like an intimacy with
> oppression, I would GUESS Aldous Huxley. I hope you are soliciting guesses!
>
> Ken Cooper
>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Darlene Sybert wrote:
> >
> > These mighty workmen of our later age,
> > Who, with a broad highway, have ovrbridged
> > The froward chaos of futurity,
> > Tamed to their bidding; they who have the skill
> > To manage books, and things, and make them act
> > On infant minds as surely as the sun
> > Deals with a flower; the keepers of our time,
> > The guides and wardens of our faculties,
> > Sages who in their prescience would control
> > All accidents, and to the very road
> > Which they have fashioned would confine us down,
> > Like engines...
> >
> > Darlene Sybert
> > University of Missouri, Columbia (English Dept)
> > ****************************************************************************
> > ...in the unreasoning progress of the world
> > A wiser spirit is at work for us,
> > A better eye...most prodigal
> > Of blessings, and most studious of our good,
> > Even in what seem our most unfruitful hours..
> > *****************************************************************************
> >
> >
> >
>
Darlene Sybert
University of Missouri, Columbia (English Dept)
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...The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing... -Keats 1819
*****************************************************************************