Re: "Flower in the Crannied Wall"

From: Michael Roberts (topper@robertschirk.u-net.com)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 16:52:06 EST

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    Yes and Tennyson would have used this to reject an orthodox Christian view .

    Sorry to disappoint you

    Michael
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: <alexanian@uncwil.edu>
    To: "asa" <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 5:46 PM
    Subject: "Flower in the Crannied Wall"

    > My wife has a USA post office poster with a quote from the poem "Crannied
    > Wall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This poem summarizes how I believe the
    whole
    > of reality hangs together. Moorad
    >
    >
    > "Flower in the Crannied Wall"
    >
    > Flower in the crannied wall,
    > I pluck you out of the crannies,
    > I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
    > Little flower -- but if I could understand
    > What you are, root and all, and all in all,
    > I should know what God and man is.
    >
    >
    >



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