Mullings by Rich Galen | Secret Decoder Ring for August 30, 2000

Did He Who Made The Lamb Make Thee?
Wednesday, August 30, 2000

TITLE: "Did He Who Made The Lamb Make Thee?" A line from the William Blake poem, "The Tiger". See below for the entire poem.

"The New York Times' front page photo:"

NY Times' Caption:
"As the podium cleared on his father's Inauguration Day, George W. Bush seized it for a moment himself."

Here is a picture of Al Gore on his government supplied airplane.

Mullings' Caption:
"Al Gore reacts to being told that Janet Reno has declined - for the fourth time - to appoint an independent counsel to investigate his role in illegal fund-raising activities during the 1996 re-election campaign."

"Tiger, tiger burning bright, indeed." Here is the William Blake (1757-1827) poem:

The Tiger

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And, when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dead grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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