July 11, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is Bastille Day, which is celebrated on July 14.
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A Bastille Day poem about the virtues of compromise:
Blessed are those who compromise their visions
And share their power with the other side,
Substituting faith for fratricide,
Trading principles for joint decisions.
Instead of blood, their battles will yield laws,
Less just, perhaps, than those they would have wanted,
Less brutal than the crimes that would have haunted
Each of them and undermined their cause.
Democracy requires compromise
And sometimes letting fools outvote the wise.
Yet some prefer the righteousness of wars.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Bastille Day
7/11: Blessed Are Those Who Compromise Their Visions
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