"In the Most Important Ways"

Thomas M. Scott 1948 (United States)



"In the Most Important Ways"

 

          "In the most important ways we have never been born

          and we shall never die--we wrap ourselves in
          time-laden days and fashion paths on which we
          ourselves sometimes get lost, having forgotten that  
          time is an extension of our experience--a  
          creation which Life, God if you will, privileges us  
          to fashion in order to know Itself, more fully, even  
          as us, in time-laden experiences which we in our  
          innocence call days--in the most important ways  
          we have never been born and we shall never die."  
                                                       

Thomas M. Scott, Th. D.               September 26, 1998

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Written on September 26, 1998

Submitted by TMScott on July 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A X BXXXXBCAX C
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 759
Words 102
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 9, 1

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