On Dec 24, 5:16 pm, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

See 'Bad Men do what good men dream' by Robert Simon
http://tinyurl.com/8kgsj5

( the tinyurl thread a while ago, I don't click on what I can't
see, so all I'm going by is the title)

As far as the title goes, sure, I agree completely. We all have
unreasonable, wrong, evil thoughts, and it's good that we do not act
on (most of) them. That's the human condition, the whole reason for
Christmas. I didn't say that such desires are not understandable, just
that they are not reasonable.

But anyways, I'll second this:

Happy Christmas all Roffians!!

Merry Christmas, all.

Jon.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Christmas Bells

I HEARD the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."