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