Kaleidoscope

Poem by a President
2007/06/12,08:37

And, freed from all that's earthly vile,
Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,
Like scenes in some enchanted isle
All bathed in liquid light.

As dusky mountains please the eye
When twilight chases day;
As bugle-tones that, passing by,
In distance die away;

These are a few lines from a poem by one of the finest presidents America and the world have seen. I was surprised to find that it was by Lincoln. The simplistic style with fantastic metaphors decorate the whole poem.

The title of the poem is 'My Childhood Home I see again'. This poem can be viewed at http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/poetry.htm

Thanks to the site for the online version of the poem and to the site http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/lincoln-abraham.jpg for the picture of Lincoln.

Abe Lincoln

Lincoln amazes me in many ways and now I have added yet another way by which he amazed me today to my database - my brain.

Netherlands
2007/06/12,07:59

Intrigued by the dutch story of recovering land from the sea, I further surfed the net and came across this beautiful site

http://www.rug.nl/wewi/dewetenschapswinkels/natuurkunde/photo

There is an interesting paragraph on how dikes were built and water pumped to recover land from sea with a beautiful picture.

There are several other pictures with interesting information about Netherlands. You may want to take a peak!

 

 
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