From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Nov 23 1999 - 20:46:43 MST
Can anyone confirm if this is the poem Alda's character from ER recited?
I went thru the Blake website and couldnt find a memetic match. ER fans?
"THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS"
by Wendell Berry
When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the
least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's
lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great
heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with
forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still
water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am
free.
> Spike Jones wrote:
>
> > It was a most moving poem. Alda's character is a senior doctor
> ...
> > In one particularly poignant interlude, the doctor recites flawlessly
> > a Blake poem he had memorized 3 decades before, yet cannot
> > recall where he parked that morning....
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