<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353459" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oxford: Michaelmas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Christ Church meadow<br>is awash with driving rain<br>and a wind which bites the skin<br>and chills the blood within.<br>Its paths are sticky, yellow mud.<br>And the Cherwell, brown and dull, <br>slips ever higher.<br>Ducks, moorhens, squirrels<br>endure it.<br>As they endure frost and ice<br>and the teeth of pike, <br>the ill-will of dogs<br>and the harrassment of herons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I retreat to Merton, <br>and the medieval silence<br>of its Tower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greeted by the bell, <br>I stand quite still in the chapel<br>and look to the east<br>through glass which escaped Thomas Cromwell's<br>iconoclastic rampages<br>and still permits a medieval vision.<br> <br>The Tower grew<br>out of 15th century wealth, <br>at the high-tide mark<br>of a millenium of Christian culture.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forty years later, <br>Coumbus set sail, <br>carrying this Christian culture and began<br>the destruction of the culture<br>of the New World<br>(Man's inhumanity to Man) , <br>inaugurating five hundred years<br>of poverty and misery<br>for its survivors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here. Now. The peace is palpable, <br>the chapel empty.<br>A patient fountain<br>round which thirsty crowds swirl and turbulate<br>in the December cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wander along St. Aldates and Merton Lane, <br>through Magpie Lane and eastward up the High, <br>trying to appease an undiagnosed, <br>spiritual ache<br>by scratching<br>where<br>it does not itch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Taylor">Brian Taylor</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353459" data-title="Oxford: Michaelmas de Brian Taylor" data-description="Christ Church meadow is awash with driving rain and a wind which bites the skin and chills the blood within. Its paths are sticky, yellow mud. And the Cherwell, brown and dull, slips ever higher. Ducks, moorhens, squirrels endure it. As they endu..."></div> </div> </div>

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