Dangerous Blindness

.There is a blindness of heart rampant in our land.

"Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."  Isaiah v.20

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T.S. Eliot called to me again this morning. I opened the book to this poem.

                                                               The Warning

                                         BEWARE! The Israelite of old, who tore
                                             The lion in his parth, - when, poor and blind,
                                         He saw the blessed light of heaven no more,
                                             Shorn of his noble strength and forced to grind
                                        In prison, and at last led forth to be
                                             A pander to Philistine revelry,-

                                        Upon the pillars of the temple laid
                                             His desperate hands, and in its overthrow
                                        Destroyed himself, and with him those who made
                                             A cruel mockery of his sightless woe;
                                        The poor, blind Slave, the scoff and jest of all,
                                             Expired, and thousands perished in the fall!

                                         There is a poor, blind Samson in this land,
                                              Shorn of his strength and bound in bonds of steel,
                                         Who may, in some grim revel, raise his hand,
                                              And shake the pillars of this Commonweal,
                                         Till the vast Temple of our liberties
                                              A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies.

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   "How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.
   The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them." Jeremiah viii: 8-9