Shakespeare’s Pacifism
Saturday, April 18th, 1992Renaissance Quarterly Spring 1992
Shakespeares PacifismApril, 1992 Archive
The Prophet Disarmed: Milton and the Quakers
Saturday, April 18th, 1992April in Paris
Thursday, April 2nd, 1992Full five and twenty years ago
At age of twenty five
I stood with you under a tree
Making a vow to strive
Through poverty, wealth, illness and health
To keep our young love alive
In the midst of utter uncertainty
Declaring it would survive.
The howling storms of time passing
That through its limbs did drive
Compressed and twisted and darkened it
And forced it to strengthen and thrive
Till today in this city of lovers
We’ve exchanged the whole half of our lives
Like wood become coal and then diamond
Our pledge’s fulfillment arrives.
1992