11 September 2008

One of the fallen:


Robert T. 'Bobby' Hughes (click on his name to read about him)


Age 23
Sayreville, N.J.
World Trade Center


Bobby's Alma Mater:


Bobby's favourite team:



Bobby's dream job:



Project 2,996 (click to read other tributes or to participate)



In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]



by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.



 


God is our refuge and strength,
         A very present help in trouble.
 Therefore we will not fear,
         Even though the earth be removed,
         And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
 Though its waters roar and be troubled,
         Though the mountains shake with its swelling.  Selah  
         
 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God,
         The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.
 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;
         God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.
 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
         He uttered His voice, the earth melted. 
         
 The LORD of hosts is with us;
         The God of Jacob is our refuge.  Selah  
         
 Come, behold the works of the LORD,
         Who has made desolations in the earth.
 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
         He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
         He burns the chariot in the fire. 
         
 Be still, and know that I am God;
         I will be exalted among the nations,
         I will be exalted in the earth! 
         
 The LORD of hosts is with us;
         The God of Jacob is our refuge.  Selah 


~Psalm 46

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