01-04-2017, 11:44 PM
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Our calendars change, our watches are set.
This promising New Year runs before us
like a defeated host,
a lion wounded with arrows.
Pursue it in haste,
hot caution and joy -
with vengeance held in our hands!
@both - Went back to fix that obvious problem and found out why it was there - getting the rhythm and number to all sync up is messy. "[H]ost" is archaic, but fixes the syllable count (and was the only one-syllable collective noun for "army" I could think of). And what could be more archaic than Assyrians?
@just mercedes - to misquote Napoleon, you may not do vengeance, but vengeance can do you.
Our calendars change, our watches are set.
This promising New Year runs before us
like a defeated host,
a lion wounded with arrows.
Pursue it in haste,
hot caution and joy -
with vengeance held in our hands!
@both - Went back to fix that obvious problem and found out why it was there - getting the rhythm and number to all sync up is messy. "[H]ost" is archaic, but fixes the syllable count (and was the only one-syllable collective noun for "army" I could think of). And what could be more archaic than Assyrians?
@just mercedes - to misquote Napoleon, you may not do vengeance, but vengeance can do you.
Non-practicing atheist