Sunday, February 23, 2020
Corona Virus Comments
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We split the atom, we flew to the moon,
We thought we were great, but we spoke too soon.
A virus came out of a far-off land,
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Chinedu Dike
23 February 2020
A poignant bit of verse set aside for sober reflection. A very tragic and compelling composition on the scourge of the corona virus that possess a serious threat to human existence. Thanks for sharing, Denys.
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“The health court had feared for plague's entry into Milan land with alemannic bands and that really had gone there, as known; and it is also known that did not stop here, but invaded and depopulated a lot of Italy...” (Alessandro Manzoni)
Grazie della segnalazione. Manzoni certo, ma prima di Manzoni c'era Lucrezio... De rerum natura, Book VI,1138-1286. Haec ratio quondam morborum et mortifer aestus finibus in Cecropis funestos reddidit agros vastavitque vias, exhausit civibus urbem. E così via, fino alla fine del libro VI...
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