From: EmMail1@aol.com
Message-ID: <322a3546.3571f518@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 20:25:58 EDT
To: agaylard@fs2.gordontafe.edu.au, alyxmac@senet.com.au, ARIZONANC@aol.com,
        basir@brain.net.pk, Bernie2@pacbell.net, Blake@clubi.ie,
        BlizardB@aol.com, bonniep@netvigator.com, Breezdancr@aol.com,
        brifrost@geocities.com, bwsimmons@juno.com, Cally59@aol.com,
        christina.hoidn@stud.uni-regensburg.de, Chukchi1@aol.com,
        Ck0227@aol.com, clareofassisi@hotmail.com, coyote@email.gcn.net.tw,
        dand@oxy.edu, DaveMiller@aol.com, Desire666@aol.com, DirDev@aol.com,
        dthomas@stic.lib.tx.us, Dpcarney@aol.com, edhensley@earthlink.net,
        Edorset@aol.com, egerlach@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu, Eg1000@aol.com,
        Emily2D@aol.com, EMOP22@aol.com, fergy4@hotmail.com,
        fg032@lennon.csufresno.edu, fluttrby@gladstone.uoregon.edu,
        fmmurphy@unicom.net, GDANES2@aol.com, haiku@singnet.com.sg,
        hathjh@essex.ac.uk, hbeng094@email.csun.edu, Heaverem@aol.com,
        HeptarchOn@aol.com, hufferm@iag.net, imago@netcomuk.co.uk,
        JBower@whc.net, jbrai@hotmail.com, jfernandez@norconsult.es,
        JGEMINI@aol.com, jheid@trinity.edu, jimreed@pdq.net,
        jmaples@hotmail.com, jpgustaf@facstaff.wisc.edu, JRoze@aol.com,
        jsapan@dnai.com, KARISA109@aol.com, KDE1981@aol.com, Kesaca@aol.com,
        kikw@river.it.gvsu.edu, kit@castles.com, ksel4052@uriacc.uri.edu,
        langdell@cco.caltech.edu, lawagner@mindspring.com, ljordan@prysm.com,
        LouisFors@aol.com, LynleeD@aol.com, Margaret_H._Freeman@laccd.cc.ca.us,
        Martha_Nell_SMITH@umail.umd.edu, MARY_OLSTAD@mail.vcsu.nodak.edu,
        mdeck@cnxlol.com, MechV@aol.com, MICKIMBALL@aol.com,
        millerd@crius.faytech.cc.nc.us, MSELSASSER@aol.com,
        MSmith@brynmawr.edu, MTownsend1@aol.com, Mugendy@aol.com,
        munshi@atcon.com, natalieaed@webtv.net, Nogloe@aol.com,
        odonogc@stjohns.edu, oliver.kamm@virgin.net, PareoR@aol.com,
        paul@populus.net, Pearl77Jam@aol.com, Pinkertin@aol.com,
        Plulijo@aol.com, pnelson@goodnet.com, poetrybug@juno.com,
        pridgen@texas.net, Rach731@aol.com, rachel@pressenter.com,
        Regina@poetryplace.net, RISHI42@aol.com, rollial@earlham.edu,
        Ryster1878@aol.com, s9522174@student.let.uva.nl, schloss@mail.com,
        simpkins@stolaf.edu, sjones@cablenet-va.com, SokrKixx@aol.com,
        spritch@gladstone.uoregon.edu, SSILVA@erols.com, Sunayo@aol.com,
        Sunflow899@aol.com, SunshineTn@aol.com, superfag@pacificnet.net,
        Tacitus33@aol.com, tanter@econs.umass.edu, thekman@earthlink.net,
        TheoDeppe@aol.com, tjag@kconline.com, tmorris@utarlg.uta.edu,
        vangogh123@hotmail.com, virgogirl143@hotmail.com,
        WICH@rumms.uni-mannheim.de, WWQUINTET@aol.com, ZoeNJ@aol.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Subject: Fwd: #690 Victory Comes Late
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="part0_896660759_boundary"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--part0_896660759_boundary
Content-ID: <0_896660759@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1>
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII


--part0_896660759_boundary
Content-ID: <0_896660759@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2>
Content-type: message/rfc822
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
Content-disposition: inline

From: LouisFors@aol.com
Return-path: <LouisFors@aol.com>
To: EmMail1@aol.com
Subject: Re: #690 Victory Comes Late
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:04:32 EDT
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

Hi, friends.

I agree that # 690 is a bitter comment about God, perhaps EDs most outspoken
jab in her life-long jousting with God and Christianity.  Victory might also
have a meaning not yet proposed:  a Christian one.  Webster, a dictionary ED
was known to have studiously surfed, gives as one definition "2.  The
advantage or superiority gained over spiritual enemies, over passions and
appetites, or over temptations, or in any struggle or competition. 'Thanks be
to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.'" This
meaning seems especially possible since the first four lines appear to refer
to a burial.  I do not suggest, however, that this meaning of "victory" is the
only acceptable one.  ED sponsored ambiguity.  

The last two lines are elusive. What oath does God reveal through sparrows?
And why do sparrows have "little love" that gives them knowledge of how to
starve?  What does "little love" mean?  These may be ED's Christian
associations which I simply don't get.  Can anybody help?

Victory comes late - 
And is held low to freezing lips -
Too rapt with frost
To take it--
How sweet it would have tasted -
Just a drop -
Was God so economical?
His Table's spread too high for Us -
Unless We dine on tiptoe -
Crumbs - fit such little mouths -
Cherries - suit Robins -
The Eagle's Golden Breakfast strangles - Them -
God keep His Oath to Sparrows -
Who of little Love - know how to starve -

Louis

--part0_896660759_boundary--