I’m thrilled to say after a lifetime of this ceaseless, unyielding panic and fear of mortality and death, that started as soon as I could read, and the words hung over my bed, “Now I lay me down to (more…)
Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli’d his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin’d: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni’d Promiscuous (more…)