{R~ birthdays, and Love [continued (5)]}[5th December 1988]

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And* if we end up fulfilling [Rudyard] Kipling’s cynical prediction:

‘On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life

(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)**

Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."’

– then we have no one to blame but ourselves; because on the Inner Circle the Inner Quality of Love is given the virtues of Temperance and the gift of Wisdom, both of which come with pure Love.

*[See last previous entry]

**{(I often think that these must be among the most disgraceful lines of English poetry)}

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