Ancient Sea Kings

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    Therefore it was surprising that, as we kept the newspapers from
    Mother,
    She died feeling responsible for a disaster unverified,
    Murmuring, in her sleep as it seemed, the ancient slogan
    Noblesse oblige.
    Josephine Miles (1911–1985)

    ...stare into the lake of sunset as it runs
    boiling, over the west past all control
    rolling and swamps the heartbeat and repeats
    sea beyond sea after unbearable suns;
    think: poems fixed this landscape: Blake, Donne, Keats.
    Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 8:27.

    Solomon at the dedication of the temple.