{"id":168,"date":"2004-12-25T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2004-12-25T12:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladle\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2004-12-25T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2004-12-25T12:33:15","slug":"the_relic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Difference of sex no more we knew \/ Than our guardian angels do;"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, just a hiatus for Christmas Day morning before we start this thing proper here. The most lovely thing anyone ever said, publically, that I knew was for me, privately. \u00a0A long time ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Relic
\n<\/strong>
\nWhen my grave is broke up again
\nSome second guest to entertain,
\n(For graves have learn’d that woman
\nhead, To be to more than one a bed)
\nAnd he that digs it, spies
\nA bracelet of bright hair about the bone,
\nWill he not let’us alone,
\nAnd think that there a loving couple lies,
\nWho thought that this device might be some way
\nTo make their souls, at the last busy day,
\nMeet at this grave, and make a little stay?
\nIf this fall in a time, or land,
\nWhere mis-devotion doth command,
\nThen he, that digs us up, will bring
\nUs to the bishop, and the king,
\nTo make us relics; then
\nThou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I
\nA something else thereby;
\nAll women shall adore us, and some men;
\nAnd since at such time
\nmiracles are sought, I would have that age by this paper taught
\nWhat miracles we harmless lovers wrought.
\nFirst, we lov’d well and faithfully,
\nYet knew not what we lov’d, nor why;
\nDifference of sex no more we knew
\nThan our guardian angels do;
\nComing and going, we
\nPerchance might kiss, but not between those meals;
\nOur hands ne’er touch’d the seals
\nWhich nature, injur’d by late law, sets free;
\nThese miracles we did, but now alas,
\nAll measure, and all language, I should pass,
\nShould I tell what a miracle she was.
\nJohn Donne
\n(1572 – 1631)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, just a hiatus for Christmas Day morning before we start this thing proper here. The most lovely thing anyone ever said, publically, that I knew was for me, privately. \u00a0A long time ago. The Relic When my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, (For graves have learn’d that woman head, … Continue reading Difference of sex no more we knew \/ Than our guardian angels do;<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}