Areopagus Volume XXII

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the twenty second volume of Areopagus. The sun was shining when I woke up today and the first thing that came to mind was this, the opening stanza of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.

Magnificent & delightful words from the wonderful Omar Khayyam. He was one of my grandmother's favourite poets and she always had a copy of the Rubaiyat to hand. Funny how some things stay with you.

And now - on with the Areopagus!