<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The Beautiful Must Always Be With Us</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">For those who do not defend the truth will be forced to defend a lie. </i></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>W. Blake</i></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Beautiful must always be with us</div><div class="">Must rise above hate, fear and injustice</div><div class="">And we must be faithful to the Beautiful</div><div class="">Though it is attacked and corrupted.</div><div class="">We are its guardians and its defenders.</div><div class="">We are its children and its protectors.</div><div class="">We must keep it visibly present in what we say or do.</div><div class="">We are audience to the Beautiful</div><div class="">And witnesses to the Beautiful</div><div class="">For the Beautiful is endangered </div><div class="">Challenged by those who would enslave</div><div class="">The Beautiful and keep it apart for some not for others</div><div class="">Not for all but for those who can afford the</div><div class="">Beautiful for holidays or vacations </div><div class="">Privileged tourists not the daily</div><div class="">Praise practice preservation of the Beautiful that is necessary.</div><div class="">For the Beautiful in all its diverse magical miraculous</div><div class="">Forms is what we live for. </div><div class="">As the earth is in jeopardy on the brink of extinction</div><div class="">Surrounded by threat to truth and good will. </div><div class="">It is the Beautiful that will save us from ourselves.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gail Onion</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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