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Aberdeen & Orkney
www.aberdeen.anglican.org
Argyll & The Isles
www.argyll.anglican.org
Brechin
www.brechin.anglican.org
Edinburgh
www.edinburgh.anglican.org
Glasgow & Galloway
www.glasgow.anglican.org
Moray, Ross & Caithness
www.morayepiscopalchurch.scot
St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane
www.standrews.anglican.org
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Pity the Nation
“Pity the nation that is full of
beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that raises not its
voice save when it walks in a
funeral, boasts not except among
its ruins, and will rebel not save
when its neck is laid between the
sword and the block.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth
it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not
harvest.
Pity the nation whose statesman
is a fox, whose philosopher is a
juggler, and whose art is the art
of patching and mimicking
Pity the nation that acclaims the
bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering
conqueror bountiful.
Pity the nation that welcomes its
new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with
trumpeting again.”
From Khalil Gibran: The
Garden of The Prophet
Pity a nation that despises a
passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.
“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours?
I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” KG
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