<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Hi everyone</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Here is something I thought you all might like. </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Frank</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE><STRONG><FONT color=#000099 size=4>AN ESSAY ON MAN EPISTLE II<BR><BR><BR> Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;<BR> The proper study of Mankind ... is Man!<BR><BR> Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,<BR> A Being darkly wise, and rudely great:<BR> With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,<BR> With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,<BR><BR> He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;<BR> In
doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast;<BR> In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer;<BR> Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;<BR><BR> Alike in ignorance, his reason such,<BR> Whether he thinks too little, or too much:<BR> Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd;<BR> Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd;<BR><BR> Created half to rise, and half to fall;<BR> Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;<BR>
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd:<BR> The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!<BR><BR> ~ Alexander Pope 1688-1744 <BR><BR><BR> AN ESSAY ON MAN EPISTLE IV<BR><BR> God loves from Whole to parts; but human soul<BR> Must rise from Individual to the Whole.<BR> Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake,<BR> as the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake;<BR><BR> The centre mov’d, a circle straight succeeds,<BR> Another still, and still another spreads;<BR>
Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace;<BR> His country next; and next all human race;<BR><BR> Wide and more wide, th’ o’erflowings of the mind<BR> Take every creature in, of ev’ry kind;<BR> Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty blest,<BR> And Heav’n beholds its image in his breast.<BR><BR> ~ Alexander Pope 1688-1744</FONT></STRONG><BR></DIV></div></html>