The serious and sometimes satirical reflections of a priest, poet, and pilgrim —
who knowing he has not obtained the goal, presses on in a Godward direction.
A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and wailing.
Rachel cries for her children and will not be consoled,
because they are not.
Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them.
A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and wailing.
Rachel cries for her children and will not be consoled,
because they are not.
From Requiem for Children, 1980
Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG
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Another musical interpretation: Ramah, in global context.
http://youtu.be/eygJJ2XegDQ
Thanks, JCF. The "disappeared" are among the holy innocents...
It is almost cliche the wicked deeds of man...and Satan.
Weep for the children of Connecticut. Weep also for the children of Pakistan -- 176 dead by drone at one count. Children gathering firewood in Afghanistan, blown up. Two teenagers, one US born, blown up in Yemen. Take assault rifles away from mad men. Take drones away from power-mad men ever seeking war.
MM, I think you have the equivalence about right -- though the power dynamic is even more damning on the side of state-driven murder.
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