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Behold, the grave of a wicked man,
And near it, a stern spirit.
There came a drooping maid with violets,
But the spirit grasped her arm.
"No flowers for him," he said.
The maid wept:
"Ah, I loved him."
But the spirit, grim and frowning:
"No flowers for him."
Now, this is it --
If the spirit was just,
Why did the maid weep?
-- Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos
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Either "love is a grave mental disease" or, he grasped her arem too harshly
Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul
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Why did the maid weep?
Pretty silly question! Foolish young women ALWAYS are attracted to the bad boys. I suspect it has a pre-human genetic basis, perhaps aggression being one sign of high fitness and indicative of a mate who will have competitive advantage for limited resources.
Of course less aggressive, more cooperative males are also widely present in the human population, because smarter young women have the sense to choose them as mates.
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Because the past is irrelevant?
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.
-Ayn Rand
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Why did the maid weep?
The Death Tax!
"I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct." J. Coleman (Founder of the Weather Channel poo-poos Globwarm)
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Behold, the grave of a wicked man,
And near it, a stern spirit.
There came a drooping maid with violets,
But the spirit grasped her arm.
"No flowers for him," he said.
The maid wept:
"Ah, I loved him."
But the spirit, grim and frowning:
"No flowers for him."
Now, this is it --
If the spirit was just,
Why did the maid weep?
-- Stephen Crane (1871-1900) I would say that the maid was weeping because the spirit was not "just", for it was she, an apparent innocent, not the wicked dead man, who was actually being punished. And to what end? Yours, Issodhos
"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos
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Or, much more simply - the maid was his daughter.
Julia
A 45’s quicker than 409
Betty’s cleaning’ house for the very last time
Betty’s bein’ bad
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the maid was out of a job?
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
(Philip K.Dick)
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Souls attain maturity at death.
All who die unbaptized are wicked.
The babe died before being baptized.
The maid is his mother, laying flowers for her lost babe.
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The maid weeps because she loved him, just as explained in the poem. Love does not judge, the loving and the loss make the tears. Love is not justice, nor is justice love. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "I weep for my country when I reflect that God is just". More weeping in despite of justice.
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