On Wednesday 16 May 2007 00:09, Craig Allen wrote: > This one's for Arto. > Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com: > > EXCLUSIVE: PRESIDENT BUSH CHOOSES LT. GEN. DOUGLAS LUTE AS NEW 'WAR > CZAR' TO OVERSEE CONFLICTS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
Well, I should try not to be involved with these matters here, but I cannot resist when my name is mentioned.... Poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt (http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/blamenot.htm) THE LOVER'S LUTE CANNOT BE BLAMED THOUGH IT SING OF HIS LADY'S UNKINDNESS. Blame not my Lute for he must sound Of this or that as liketh me ; For lack of wit the Lute is bound To give such tunes as pleaseth me ; Though my songs be somewhat strange, And speak such words as touch thy change, Blame not my Lute ! My Lute ! alas ! doth not offend, Though that perforce he must agree To sound such tunes as I intend, To sing to them that heareth me ; Then though my songs be somewhat plain, And toucheth some that use to feign, Blame not my Lute ! My Lute and strings may not deny But as I strike they must obey ; Break not them then so wrongfully, But wreak thyself some other way ; And though the songs which I indite Do quit thy change with rightful spite, Blame not my Lute ! Spite asketh spite, and changing change, And falsèd faith must needs be known ; The fault so great, the case so strange ; Of right it must abroad be blown : Then since that by thine own desart My songs do tell how true thou art, Blame not my Lute ! Blame but thyself that hast misdone, And well deservèd to have blame ; Change thou thy way, so evil begone, And then my Lute shall sound that same ; But if 'till then my fingers play, By thy desert their wonted way, Blame not my Lute ! Farewell ! unknown ; for though thou break My strings in spite with great disdain, Yet have I found out for thy sake, Strings for to string my Lute again : And if, perchance, this sely rhyme Do make thee blush, at any time, Blame not my Lute ! To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
