In the past week, the Coronavirus Lockdown has begun easing in the UK. Will “normal life” return? What will “new normal” be like? I hope a kinder world emerges.
….at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
In Andrew Marvell’s poem To His Coy Mistress, the voice of the poem urges us to Sieze the Day before, in the words of Cleopatra’s attendant Iras, “The bright day is done/And we are for the dark.” The pandemic has caused a great Pause in the affairs of much of the human race. What are the future horizons?
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