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  Tullia Aragona 01:22 on 22/03/2014 Permalink | Reply
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  Hello I read some poems at Isabella’s salon… 

  Hello! I read some poems at Isabella’s salon the other night and she asked me to share something here. I think To Ochino was her favorite. It is a poem to “religious reformer” Bernardo Ochino. He’s been preaching for the abolition of Carnivale! Isabella and I both believe this is such a wonderful event and we are shocked that he wants to take it away.

  To Ochino

  Bernardo, it should be enough for you,
  With that sweet speech infused in you by Nature,
  To light our hearts to high eternal works,
  Here where the King of Rivers flows most clearly.
  Since your own inner wishes are sincere,
  And your own life reflects a pure intent,
  You’re rather an inhabitant of heaven.
  As to these masquerades, dances, and music,
  Sanctioned by time and by the ancient customs –
  Why do you now forbid them in your sermons?
  Holiness it is not, but arrogance
  To take away free will, the highest gift
  Which God bestowed on us from the beginning.

   

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  Izzy 05:42 on 20/03/2014 Permalink | Reply
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  I Send You This Spring Equinox 

  

  
  

  The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies

  between me and my book;
  And the South Wind, washing through the room,
  Makes the candles quiver.
  My nerves sting at a spatter of rain on the shutter,
  And I am uneasy with the thrusting of green shoots
  Outside, in the night.

  Why are you not here to overpower me with your

  tense and urgent love?

  — Amy Lowell, Vernal Equinox

  

  
  

  Photos by: David Wilson Clarke, Mamooli, NASA Goddard Photo and Video, Joana Roja