Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain

 For the Rain It Raineth Every Day

William Shakespeare

When that I was and a little tiny boy,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

A foolish thing was but a toy,

For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came to man's estate,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,

For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came, alas! to wive,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

By swaggering could I never thrive,

For the rain it raineth every day.

A great while ago the world begun,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

But that's all one, our play is done,

And we'll strive to please you every day.

From Twelfth Night, Act V, scene 1

https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/2356

This song/poem has always filled me with the kind of sadness that Autumn does.  Not too sad a sadness, if that makes any sense.  A beautiful sadness?  And it speaks of the sadness that belongs to the world, the sadness Janet Frame describes feeling from when she was a tiny child.  I first read this poem in our Children's Treasure House books when I was very young, and I seem to remember a picture of Feste (whose song it is), his back to us, disappearing into the blue yonder.  The words really got to me, and still do.

It has been a stormy start to November - with wonderful waves on The Channel.  Penny reports the garden at the farm is covered with apples after the night's storm - even though they have been picking non-stop and every corner cupboard is crammed with apples and apple products.

Another Lockdown is imminent and Captain Treasure Hunter is hoping he might get one more detecting session in before it comes into force on Thursday.  He had a rainy weekend out there in the field this weekend- which did not (on either day) turn out to be the field in which King Canute lost his gold doubloon filled treasure chest - if doubloons had been invented back then, and if he happened to lose a chest full of them in a local field.  

Maybe next time...   in the meantime a giant batch of Butterfly memberships has murmurated its way to me, so that will keep me busy for a while.

Here is the next extract from the Watchtower study article about the resurrection. 

HOW WILL THE RESURRECTION LIKELY TAKE PLACE?

5. Why is it reasonable to believe that people will be resurrected in an orderly, gradual manner?

5 When Jehovah through his Son resurrects countless millions, we may assume that not all of them will come back to life at the same time. Why not? Because an explosion in the earth’s population would likely cause chaos. And Jehovah never does anything in a disorganized, chaotic way. He knows that for peace to last, order must be maintained. (1 Cor. 14:33) Jehovah God was wise and patient when he worked with Jesus to prepare the earth in a gradual manner before creating mankind. In turn, Jesus will display those same qualities during the Thousand Year Reign when he works with Armageddon survivors as they prepare the earth to receive resurrected ones.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2020526#h=64