{"id":117,"date":"2005-02-15T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/15\/happy-day-after-valentines\/"},"modified":"2005-02-15T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T22:38:00","slug":"happy-day-after-valentines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/15\/happy-day-after-valentines\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Day-after-Valentine’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a day late and a dollar short, but all day long, the fact that yesterday was Valentine’s Day has had me singing and hearing an old song called Come Again<\/em> that I used to sing in my voice class when I was a Music Theory major back at Arizona State in the mid ’80s. It’s by John Dowland, circa 1600.<\/p>\n

\nCome again, sweet love doth now invite
\nThy graces that refrain
\nTo do me due delight
\nTo see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die
\nWith thee again, in sweetest sympathy.<\/p>\n

\nCome again, that I may cease to mourn
\nThrough thy unkind disdain,
\nFor now left and forlorn,
\nI sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die
\nIn deadly pain, and endless misery.<\/p>\n

\nGentle love, draw forth thy wounding dart.
\nThou cans’t not pierce her heart
\nFor I that do approve,
\nBy sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts, did tempt,
\nWhile she for triumph laughs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nTo truly appreciate this stuff, you have to remember that in a more chivalrous age, around the time when people started saying “God bless you!” every time somebody sneezed to keep their souls from leaving their bodies<\/em>, “to die” meant to have a really good orgasm. <\/p>\n

Or so I’ve been told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a day late and a dollar short, but all day long, the fact that yesterday was Valentine’s Day has had me singing and hearing an old song called Come Again that I used to sing in my voice class when I was a Music Theory major back at Arizona State in the mid ’80s. … <\/p>\n

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