The Thought of Her
2008 August 17
Item: August 17, 1998 – Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an “improper physical relationship” with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he “misled people” about his relationship.
| MY love for thee doth take me unaware, | |
| When most with lesser things my brain is wrought | |
| As in some nimble interchange of thought | |
| The silence enters, and the talkers stare. | |
| Suddenly I am still and thou art there, | 5 |
| A viewless visitant and unbesought, | |
| And all my thinking trembles into nought | |
| And all my being opens like a prayer. | |
| Thou art the lifted Chalice in my soul, | |
| And I a dim church at the thought of thee; | 10 |
| Brief be the moment, but the mass is said, | |
| The benediction like an aureole | |
| Is on my spirit, and shuddering through me | |
| A rapture like the rapture of the dead. |
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- “Little Book of Modern Verse” – 1917
Still a better president than G.W.B.
He was a lyin’, cheatin’, Razorback frat boy married to Satan’s own shrieking harpy.