Posted by
KsReaganite on Monday, March 15, 2010 2:16:10 AM
Often we confuse substance with style, soul with image, the real with the mirage, Sometimes, the reality cannot even be shared for so many reasons. Such a predicament was faced by Sir Richard Lovelace, a prisoner of Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary forces who simply couldn't be open with his captors or his beloved about his work for his Sovereign King Charles II. Thus from prison he penned some of the more poignant lines in the English language:
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage
Freedom has a price that even the most humble individual pays in way that most of us can never comprehend.