meditating over the dale’s edge,
shadows the fields and folds
in elegant diurnal flight.
on windside,careful sight
may swoop to prey
and away.
your yellow broad-eyed look,
at once both sharp and distant,
holds me.
oh,silence,
oh ,wind on green,
oh. earth,
sky.
immense your held vision,
sphere without centre,
pied geometer of flight,
sketch your descent and ascent.
trees bunched by dry stone wall
call heart home.
Alfred wished his wife would make a cake.
He himself could never boil or bake.s
When Marie bought cakes in Marks
His eyes gave out fierce orange sparks.
I thought their marriage was at risk
And I undertook my task.
I bought a needle circular
Now I knit round cakes for her
The soul with grief and love is weighted down
And does not know directions nor the time.
Winter sky of darkness wears a frown.
The soul alone is waiting as I rhyme.
To escape our grieving would be wrong.
To drown ourselves in liquor is a waste
But now I hear a subterranean song.
The offerings of the Lord I surely taste.
The music wells up slowly and rings out
I sing as sweetly as my chords allow.
The riches of the mall are of no clout.
The angels gather round me gently now.
Grieving is not evil nor corrupt
Grieving can our hollow lives disrupt
In England deference is required
As social strata need to be maintained.
And yet with rage my soul is fired.
For in poverty the sick are to be detained.
Who will be the woman of the year?
What crystal night glass will she need to smash?
What ceiling may fall down and our hearts tear?
Shall we hurl ourselves into the trash?
And which prime minister will we applaud
For making us feel safe and sane next year?
As we haunt the January Sales ,Oh Lord,
Forgive us if our brother’s coat we tear.
Was God incarnate here upon the earth?
We heard a single mother gave him birth.
Deferential, I
Eternity await
Submit to your grace
In my patient state.
None but God can judge;
None have his pure gaze.
Write me not your wish.
Tempt me not with praise.
Timeless as the heavens
Eternity is now
Mindful of this lesson
Grace will show me how
Word of the Day : December 16, 2015
: respect and esteem due a superior or an elder; also : affected or ingratiating regard for another’s wishes
Showing deference to his visiting uncle, Charles insisted on giving up his usual seat at the head of the dinner table so that the older gentleman could take his place.
“At 84, he’s … the business’s greatest living screenwriter and … a man whom stars treat with a deference he doesn’t always reciprocate.” — Boris Kachka, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2015
The words deference and defer both derive from the Latin deferre, which means “to bring down” or “to carry away.” At the same time you might also hear that defer traces to the Latindifferre, which means “to postpone” or “to differ.” Which root is right? Both. That’s because English has two verbs, or homographs, spelled defer. One means “to submit or delegate to another” (as in “I defer to your greater expertise”). That’s the one that is closely related to deference and that comes from deferre. The other means “to put off or delay” (as in “we decided to defer the decision until next month”); that second defer derives from differ
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I once tried to climb up the ladder
Crying,echelons,I don’t give b*gger.
oBut the top rung was smokin’
And the next down was broken.
There’s somethin’ there we canna figure
Is it mi Northern deportment,
Which I didna think were important?
We women ‘et Pennines
‘u seen employment declining
And owa men forced to smoke fags f ‘et ‘et excitement
instead of the we used to say het or ‘et which is connected to lanaguages like Dutch.
This word has a large number of usages.From military to mathematical.It means [in the French/Latin,]taken literally,
“rung of the ladder”
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echelon
[esh-uh-lon]
noun
1.
a level of command, authority, or rank:
After years of service, she is now in the upper echelon of city officials.
Synonyms: place, rank, hierarchy, authority, grade, office; row, tier, rung; social standing, position, class, standing.
2.
a level of worthiness, achievement, or reputation:
studying hard to get into one of the top echelon colleges.
Synonyms: degree, position, tier.
3.
Military. a formation of troops, ships, airplanes, etc., in which groups of soldiers or individual vehicles or craft are arranged in parallel lines, either with each line extending to the right of the one in front (right echelon) or with each line extending to the left of the one in front (left echelon) so that the whole presents the appearance of steps.
4.
Military. one of the groups of a formation so arranged.
5.
Archaic. any structure or group of structures arranged in a steplike form.
6.
Also called echelon grating. Spectroscopy. a diffraction grating that is used in the resolution of fine structure lines and consists of a series of plates of equal thickness stacked in staircase fashion.
verb (used with or without object)
7.
to form in an echelon.
Origin of echelon Expand
FrenchOld French
1790-18001790-1800; < French échelon, orig. rung of a ladder, Old French eschelon, equivalent to esch (i) ele ladder (< Latin scāla; see scale3) + -on noun suffix
Related forms
echelonment, noun
Word story Expand
Echelon comes from the French échelon, a word whose literal meaning is “rung of a ladder.” Initially it was confined to military use, to refer to a step-like formation of troops.
Ironically, while echelon entered English in a military context, it was the first and second World Wars that extended the meaning to other, nonmilitary, sectors. During World War I, the term took on a more generalized sense of a “level” or “subdivision”; World War II broadened echelon’s usage to describe grades and ranks in professions outside the military.
At the same time, English speakers started using echelon to classify institutions or persons they held in high esteem by referring to them as part of the “upper” or “top” echelon. With this in mind, the phrase “social climber” conjures up the image of people who wish to ascend through the various ladder rungs of society until they reach the top.
Popular references Expand
—Row echelon form: In linear algebra, a simplified form of a matrix in which each non-zero row has more leading zeros than the previous row.
—ECHELON: Code name of a global surveillance system developed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). It operates by intercepting and processing international communications transmitted via communications satellites.
—Third Echelon: A fictional sub-group of the NSA created by Tom Clancy in his Splinter Cell book series.
Related Quotations Expand
“Beyond [the city] were the suburban homes of laborers and low-echelon executives who had carved brass-knuckled niches for themselves in the medium-income bracket.“
—Irving E. Cox, Jr., The Cartels Jungle (1955)
“If a CEO wavers and shows signs of not being confident of which way he wants to go, it sends shudders from the top echelon all the way down the mountain.“
—D. A. Benton, How to think like a CEO (2000)
“[I]t is a monstrous leap from what [a master] can do to what the elite grandmasters (the Fischers and the Karpovs and the Kasparovs) can do, which is why even the top echelon of players often maintain a base of humility beneath their bluster.“
—Michael Weinreb, Game of Kings: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America’s Top High School Chess Team (2007)
“By echelon we mean a formation in which the subdivisions are placed one behind another, extending beyond and unmasking one another either wholly or in part.“
—James Alfred Moss, Manual of Military Training (1914)
“[T]hey echeloned to the right around the hill, and the 1st Platoon fired into their flank for ten to fifteen minutes; however, they never slacked or broke formation.“
—William T. Bowers, The Line: Combat In Korea, January–February 1951, Volume 1 (2008)
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Examples from the Web for echelon Expand
Contemporary Examples
The echelon below were 18-year-old Olders, overseeing Babies and Tinies as young as 10 in the final rung.
A Tinderbox Waiting for a Match
Gavin Knight
August 10, 2011
I think Tina is the first woman who has gotten into that echelon.
TV’s Funniest New Moms
Kara Cutruzzula
March 23, 2009
The view may look bright at the top GOP echelon, but that does not appear to be the attitude of the rank and file.
Why the GOP Should Panic
Matt Latimer
November 6, 2011
Historical Examples
You will start at nightfall with three hundred men, whom you will echelon along the road.
Original Short Stories of Maupassant, Volume 1
Guy de Maupassant
The formation was in echelon by the right, with unequal intervals.
King Robert the Bruce
A. F. Murison
Another battalion had also suffered considerably from shell fire, and was posted in echelon on the left rear.
With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia
One of its Officer
The advance was made by the two brigades in squares marching in echelon.
The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885
Charles Royle
General Hunter evidently conceived the rear of the echelon threatened from the direction of Kerreri.
The River War
Winston S. Churchill
We could negate the efforts of any echelon below the Eddorians themselves, it is true.
Triplanetary
Edward Elmer Smith
All egress is stopped by the Allies’ echelon formation, except by Aleppo.
World’s War Events, Vol. II
Various
British Dictionary definitions for echelon Expand
echelon
/ˈɛʃəˌlɒn/
noun
1.
a level of command, responsibility, etc (esp in the phrase the upper echelons)
2.
(military)
a formation in which units follow one another but are offset sufficiently to allow each unit a line of fire ahead
a group formed in this way
3.
(physics) a type of diffraction grating used in spectroscopy consisting of a series of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
verb
4.
to assemble in echelon
Word Origin
C18: from French échelon, literally: rung of a ladder, from Old French eschiele ladder, from Latin scāla; see scale ³
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Word Origin and History for echelon Expand
n.
1796, “step-like arrangement of troops,” from French échelon “level, echelon,” literally “rung of a ladder,” from Old French eschelon, from eschiele “ladder,” from Late Latin scala “stair, slope,” from Latin scalae (plural) “ladder, steps,” from PIE *skand- “to spring, leap” (see scan ). Sense of “level, subdivision” is from World War I.
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There are some terms here I’ve never used or heard but I wonder why people usually in the lower or middle classes use these kind terms especially when you see how aggrsesive politicians are both with us and with other countries.And how cold many of the upper classes seem.Perhaps boarding school affects them so badly or they think it’s common
My ow bit of England
I am planning to write a longer article on this over Xmas
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