mercurial scribe

I had a post developing a bit after I heard yesterday about the death of Heath Ledger, but I think that my Husband did it better. Please check out his post.

DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS

The last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath,
On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking,
Down a new-made double grave.

Lo, the moon ascending,
Up from the east the silvery round moon,
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon,
Immense and silent moon.

I see a sad procession,
And I hear the sound of coming full-key’d bugles,
All the channels of the city streets they’re flooding,
As with voices and with tears.

I hear the great drums pounding,
And the small drums steady whirring,
And every blow of the great convulsive drums,
Strikes me through and through.

For the son is brought with the father,
(In foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
Two veterans son and father dropt together,
And the double grave awaits them.)

Now near blow the bugles,
And the drums strike more convulsive,
And the daylight o’er the pavement quite has faded,
And the strong dead-march enwraps me.

In the eastern sky up-buoying,
The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin’d,
(’Tis some mother’s large transparent face,
In heaven brighter growing.)

O strong dead-march you please me!
O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!
O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!
What I have I also give you.

The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives you love.

-Walt Whitman

On this day, my fallen ones, you who sacrificed so i may live free; and my soldiers who fight for my freedom still; my heart gives you love.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICES.

Click here to see the American casualties in Iraq and here to see the Iraqi body count.

May God save us all from our own foolishness if we do not soon do it ourselves.

i have adored you for seven years. You reminded me of my own relationship with my mother, but in that “It’s a Wonderful Life” kinda way. Though i felt the last two years just weren’t true to your characters, sadly due to the loss of the Brilliant One,i loved you anyway because that’s what family does.

i aspire to be as witty and spectacular as your characters were. Why? Because i :heart: Gilmore Girls.

ps- i hope you have a profit percentage on the dvds because i’m sooooo getting all the seasons.

Here’s to my husband, love of my life.

To us, on our special day. (Love you, jelly bean!)

As of today, i have been blogging Mercurial Scribe for a whole year!

To celebrate, have a piece of cake…

Share a glass of champagne with me…

And feel free to share a few memories.