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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2004/12

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:32:40 -0500


To my Country

I have not sung you, my country,
not brought glory to your name
with the great deeds of a hero
or the spoils a battle yields.
But on the shores of the Jordan
my hands have planted a tree,
and my feet have made a pathway
through your fields.

Modest are the gifts I bring you.
I know this, mother.
Modest, I know, the offerings
of your daughter:
Only an outburst of song
on a day when the light flares up,
only a silent tear
for your poverty.

-RACHEL (1890-1931) Russian poet

Rachel (Bluwstein) was born in northern Russia in 1890, and died in Tel Aviv
in 1931 of tuberculosis, which she contracted while working in schools for
refugee children during World War I in Russia. She lived out her last years in
loneliness in a room in Tel Aviv, and was buried at the Kinneret. Most of
her poetry was published in her last years.

http://www.lehrercommunications.com/MIDI/O_CHAN2.MID

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