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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Awake!



Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

Do college students still read The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam? I have my mother's copy from her college years -- as well as my own, bought when I was a freshman at Emory University in Atlanta -just one year shy of half a century ago.

My suitemate, Ada Rasmussen, was a sound sleeper and I made a habit of bursting into her room in the early morning and shouting out the above quatrain.

No wonder she doesn't keep in touch.

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