Light The Festive Candles

Light the first of eight tonight—

the farthest candle to the right.

Light the first and second, too,

when tomorrow’s day is through.

Then light three, and then light four—

every dusk one candle more

Till all eight burn bright and high,

honoring a day gone by

When the Temple was restored,

rescued from the Syrian lord,

And an eight-day feast proclaimed—

The Festival of Lights—well named

To celebrate the joyous day

when we regained the right to pray

to our one God in our own way.

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Poems in English 

• Lorelei by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Lesbos by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Leaving Early by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Landowners by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Lament by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Kindness by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Jilted by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Insomniac by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Incommunicado by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• I Want, I Want by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• I Am Vertical by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Heavy Woman by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Hardcastle Crags by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Gulliver by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Green Rock, Winthrop Bay by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Gold Mouths Cry by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Goatsucker by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Gigolo by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

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Doska or the Board – write anything

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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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