Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Michael

Michael
 
John 1:5
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
 
 


"At Christmas a capon, at Michaelmas, a goose.
And somewhat else at New Yere's tide for feare the lease flies loose."~~~
George Gascoigne.

“Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince,
And thou, in military prowess next,
Gabriel; lead forth to battle these my sons
Invincible; lead forth my armed saints
By thousands and by millions ranged for fight.
~~~
MILTON: Paradise Lost, VI, 44
 
 
"Agitated by a moon stronger then than now, immense tides ripped across this tremendous ocean, keeping it in a state of torment. Since no great amounts of sand had yet been built, the waters where they reached shore were universally dark, black as night and fearful.
  Scores of millions of years before man had risen from the shores of the ocean to perceive its grandeur and to venture forth upon its turbulent waves, this eternal sea existed, larger than any other of the earth’s features, vaster than the sister oceans combined, wild, terrifying in its immensity and imperative in its universal role."
~~~Michener

 
 
 
 
 
Le Mont-Saint-Michel vu du ciel au lever du soleil.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Coat of arms of Le Mont-Saint-Michel

Chess: "Michael"

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