Dawn's Early Light

In the fitful waking period, I remembered missing verses. I remembered, in particular, this old post. Missing verses are the casualties of revision — that is, seeing things anew and casting old visions aside.

Unfortunately, revisioning and revisionism just remind me further of the old Stalinist delete-people-from-photos trick. It looks so much better if you just call it 'revising' because then people don't see the vision thing.

So it is that by dawn's early light, a star spangled banner may yet wave, but the stars are hid by cloud and smoke. So it is that wise men may keep silent while the laughter of children fades to dust.

Dawn's early light comes too early for some, too late for others. By midday, only the high-flying vultures remain above the battlefield.

The Alexandrian Key

It is said that the Great Library at Alexandria...

• was the largest collection of learning of its time or any time before it


• was one of many libraries all established in cities called Alexandria


• was indexed by complex cryptography because it was so large


• was razed by a truly literate conqueror


• was a threat to world peace


• was a necessary evil


• was

Egypt is a mysterious land. God works in mysterious ways.

Celebrant: Open the gates of your heart. This is the morning. The blood of the sun is within us and the light of the dawn covers the land with its heat.

Congregation: This is the eye of the day.

Celebrant: Open the gates of your breast. This is the morning. The breath of the sun is upon us and the light of the dawn brings life.

Congregation: Behold the eye of the day.

Celebrant: Open the gates of your mouth. This is the morning. The word of the sun is upon us and the light of the dawn calls us to praise the Ancient of Days.

Congregation: Praise the Ancient of Days!

All: For the sun has He set as a light from dawn to dusk and as an arbiter of season and sign, of promise and of hope.