http://www.xanga.com/bookboarLatest Xanga weblog from bookboaren-us60http://s.xanga.com/images/xangalogobutton.gifhttp://www.xanga.com/bookboarhttp://www.xanga.com/bookboar/307158547/item.htmlhttp://www.xanga.com/bookboar/307158547/item.htmlSun, 17 Jul 2005 22:56:43 GMT<H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 125%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" /><v:shapetype id=_x0000_t75 stroked="f" filled="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype><v:shape id=_x0000_s1026 style="MARGIN-TOP: -27pt; Z-INDEX: -1; LEFT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: -48pt; WIDTH: 376.05pt; POSITION: absolute; HEIGHT: 558.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" alt="" type="#_x0000_t75"><v:imagedata o:href="http://www.hulubei.net/tudor/photography/photos/SaidaFortressGate-1000x1500.jpg" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Laura\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></v:imagedata></v:shape><SPAN style="COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'">Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you<BR>As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;<BR>That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend<BR>Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.<BR>I, like an usurped town, to another due,<BR>Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end.<BR>Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,<BR>But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4> <H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 125%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></SPAN></H4> <H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 125%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'">Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,<BR>But am betrothed unto your enemy:<BR>Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,<BR>Take me to you, imprison me, for I,<BR>Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,<BR>Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4> <H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'">~ John Donne, “Holy Sonnet XIV” <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>http://www.xanga.com/bookboar/307158547/item.html#firstcomment