{"id":29525,"date":"2014-01-05T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29525"},"modified":"2013-12-04T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:00:48","slug":"journey-of-the-magi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/journey-of-the-magi\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey of the Magi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JOURNEY OF THE MAGI<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A cold coming we had of it,
\nJust the worst time of the year
\nFor a journey, and such a long journey:<\/p>\n

The ways deep and the weather sharp,
\nThe very dead of winter.
\nAnd the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, \u2028 Lying down in the melting snow.
\nThere were times we regretted
\nThe summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
\nAnd the silken girls bringing sherbet.
\nThen the camel men cursing and grumbling
\nAnd running away, and wanting their liquor and women,<\/p>\n

And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters, \u2028 And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly\u2028 And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
\nA hard time we had of it.
\nAt the end we preferred to travel all night,\u2028 Sleeping in snatches,
\nWith the voices singing in our ears, saying
\nThat this was all folly.\n<\/p>\n

Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,\u2028 Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation:\u2028 With a running stream and a water-mill beating<\/p>\n

the darkness
\nAnd three trees on the low sky,
\nAnd an old white horse galloped away in the meadow,\u2028 Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,\u2028 Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,\u2028 And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
\nBut there was no information, and so we continued\u2028 And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon\u2028 Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory.\n<\/p>\n

All this was a long time ago, I remember,\u2028 And I would do it again, but set down<\/p>\n

This set down
\nThis: were we led all that way for
\nBirth or Death: There was a Birth, certainly,
\nWe had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,<\/p>\n

But had thought they were different; this Birth was \u2028 Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.\u2028 We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,\u2028 But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,\u2028 With an alien people clutching their gods.
\nI should be glad of another death.<\/p>\n

T.S. Eliot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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