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46. Lullaby

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Lullaby by W. H. Auden

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's carnal ecstasy.

Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell,
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find the mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.

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I'd apologize for not updating in a while but I'm not sorry. Life has been--is being...lived and it doesn't really include deviantART. It's nothing personal or bad. I've just kind of outgrown this place. I check every once in a while but don't bother to post. Until now.

I'm going in a direction I never would have chosen on my own but it's been an amazing journey. I don't quite know where I'm headed. It's kind of scary but I embrace the adventure.

If you actually care to keep up with me or my life, I'm on twitter KonekoD. You can subscribe to my public updates on Facebook. I generally don't friend people I don't know IRL, fyi. I'm also on tumblr (konekod) but I'm thinking I may have to set it aside as well.

It's been fun. 7 years is a good run, I'd say. Who knows? I may come back...but don't bet on it.

All the best

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The Legend of Korra is an American animated television series that premiered on the Nickelodeon television network on April 14, 2012. It was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko as a sequel to their previous show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, which aired on the same network from 2005 to 2008. Like its predecessor, the series is set in a fictional world where some people can "bend", that is, telekinetically manipulate the elements of water, earth, fire, or air. Only one person, the "Avatar", can manipulate all four elements, and he or she is responsible for maintaining the balance in the world. The series follows Korra, the current incarnation of the Avatar, as she travels to the metropolis of Republic City to learn airbending and face an anti-bender revolutionary group, the "Equalists".

The series was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010 as Avatar: Legend of Korra. It was initially conceived as a miniseries of 12 episodes, but is now set to run for 52 episodes separated into two seasons. The creators separated each season into two "books", each of which tells a separate story. Several producers and voice actors from the original series, including designer Joaquim Dos Santos and composer Jeremy Zuckerman, also worked on The Legend of Korra. Book One: Air – the first twelve episodes – received positive reviews for its animation, setting, mature themes and portrayal of romantic relationships, although its pacing, character development, and speedy resolution of conflicts were criticized. The series received an average of 3.7 million viewers when Book One: Air aired from April to June 2012.

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Uninspired

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I'm not sure what it is but I'm having a lot of trouble trying to come up with decent journal designs. I shy away from the requests I have on the waiting list because I don't want to deal with the frustration but then again the longer I stay away from them the worse it would get?? I don't even know.

Otherwise, life is good. I wasn't born to teach but I feel I'm being made into someone who would seem like it. I love it. :D

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Patriotic

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The Declaration of independence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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