<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">That Spirit Bloweth And Is Still</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">It will not rise for our whistling or keep a timetable.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">No wine that we know can give us anything more</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">Than a fugitive caricature of its ecstasies.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">While it has blown free we remember it always.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">And we know without proof that while the rapture was there,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">We were not drunk but wise, that for a moment</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">Some intervening darkness had thinned,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">And we were seeing further than we can see now into the heart of life.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 27.85pt 0in 0in;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0in 27.85pt;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">- C. E. Montegue</span></font></p><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;"><br></span></font><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;"><br></span></font></div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;">"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."</span></font><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 29px;"> - Wendell Berry</span></font></div></div></div></body></html>