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April is National Poetry Month!
Apr. 3rd, 2008 02:11 pmFrom one of Edna St. Vincent Millay's great themed series of sonnets, Epitaph For the Race of Man: Sonnet IV, "See Where Capella With Her Golden Kids..."
VI
See where Capella with her golden kids
Grazes the slope between the east and north?
Thus when the builders of the pyramids
Flung down their tools at nightfall and poured forth
Homeward to supper and a poor man's bed,
Shortening the road with friendly jest and slur,
The risen She-Goat showing blue and red
Climbed the clear dusk, and three stars followed her.
Safe in their linen and their spices lie
The kings of Egypt; even as long ago
Under these constellations, with long eye
And scented limbs they slept, and feared no foe.
Their will was law; their will was not to die:
And so they had their way; or nearly so.
On a totally different note, an amusing aside from the 4-2-2008 entry of Comic Book Resources (scroll down past the excellent discussion of Superman and the the Siegal estate win): "Apparently ringtone sales are dropping precipitously, cutting off a major if idiotic revenue stream for the cellular phone industry."
On the whole, I'm inclined to take issues of money and copyright and evolving venues for cultural products seriously, but I've never been able to see custom ringtones as anything but silly.
VI
See where Capella with her golden kids
Grazes the slope between the east and north?
Thus when the builders of the pyramids
Flung down their tools at nightfall and poured forth
Homeward to supper and a poor man's bed,
Shortening the road with friendly jest and slur,
The risen She-Goat showing blue and red
Climbed the clear dusk, and three stars followed her.
Safe in their linen and their spices lie
The kings of Egypt; even as long ago
Under these constellations, with long eye
And scented limbs they slept, and feared no foe.
Their will was law; their will was not to die:
And so they had their way; or nearly so.
On a totally different note, an amusing aside from the 4-2-2008 entry of Comic Book Resources (scroll down past the excellent discussion of Superman and the the Siegal estate win): "Apparently ringtone sales are dropping precipitously, cutting off a major if idiotic revenue stream for the cellular phone industry."
On the whole, I'm inclined to take issues of money and copyright and evolving venues for cultural products seriously, but I've never been able to see custom ringtones as anything but silly.
