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[EMAIL SENT] Phoenix and the turtle
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jegger
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 		[EMAIL SENT] Phoenix and the turtle
I'm just a n00b, and I apologize in advance if I've been working too autonomously on this, but in the Aug. 3 email the word turtle seemed very out of place as did the Gutenberg references (although they came from the emails, she didn't have to use END:FULL LICENSE). I did a search on Gutenberg for turtle and only got one text. It's a poem called "The Phoenix and the Turtle". As I read it, it seemed to be about two entities merging into one and dying in the process. Very metaphysical. Just in case it's relevant, I sent ladybee777 the full text as follows, and another mail asking some questions. Just notifying in case any snippets come back.

Thanks,
Jegger

Will Love and Constancy now die?
Will the Phoenix and the turtle fly
In a mutual flame from hence?

Do they love as love in twain
Had the essence but in one?
Two distincts, division none;
Will number there in love be slain?

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THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE



LET the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.

But thou shrieking harbinger,
Foul precurrer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near!

From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.

Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.

And thou treble-dated crow,
That thy sable gender makest
With the breath thou givest and takest,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

Here the anthem doth commence:
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.

So they loved, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen:
But in them it were a wonder.

So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight;
Either was the other's mine.

Property was thus appalled,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was called.

Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together,
To themselves yet either neither,
Simple were so well compounded,

That it cried, How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none,
If what parts can so remain.

Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supremes and stars of love,
As chorus to their tragic scene.

THRENOS.

Beauty, truth, and rarity,
Grace in all simplicity,
Here enclosed in cinders lie.

Death is now the phoenix' nest
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,

Leaving no posterity:
'Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.

Truth may seem, but cannot be:
Beauty brag, but 'tis not she;
Truth and beauty buried be.

To this urn let those repair
That are either true or fair
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:18 am
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Tank8131
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 		Don't give people ideas!!! And by idea I mean everyone posting new thread about their email that sent...if they did this whole place would become even more unorganized!!!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:37 am
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 		Right, Tank! This kind of thing could be noted here, but the place to post the emails you've sent is the Wiki. there's an Emails page, and specifically, a link to where you can post Emails sent TO Ladybee777 During Phase II. So there's already a place to do this, and while I think you're doing a great job, and we all encourage you, jegger, you would be clogging up this forum with that kind of work. Please use the wiki. It's awesome.

Link to the wiki: http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Phase2_Emails_to_ladybee777
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