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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:37:05 -0700
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From: John Perry Barlow barlow@eff.org
Subject: On the New Year...
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Dear Ones...
A friend of mine in New York City sent me this poem on New Year's Eve and I wanted you to have it too. If past is any prologue, 1996 will be a wild ride. There is every reason to be a little apprehensive. But embedded in this poem is some of that groundless hope, the eye-of-the-hurricane calm - and love, I guess - that sees me through these days. May you have it too.
GREETING
(New Year's Eve, 1937)
by May Sarton
The earth feels old tonight
And we who live and stand on the cold rim
Face a new year.
It is raining everywhere
As if the rain were mercy,
As if the rain were peace,
Peace falling on our hair.
Open your hearts tonight; let them burn!
Let them light a way in the dark.
Let them one by one affirm
There is hope for a staff:
I say it will flower in our hands,
We shall go garlanded.
There is the fine fresh stuff of faith for a coat:
We shall go warm.
We shall go on by the light of our hearts.
We shall burn mightily in the new year.
We shall go on together--
O you who stand alone on the rim of the earth and are cold,
I salute you here!
Love,
John Perry
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