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| Subject: Idiots: Groups of leftist "anarchists" and socialists promised to mount protests along Thatcher's funeral route Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:39 pm | |
| As the congregation at St Paul's Cathedral wait on Wednesday for Margaret Thatcher's funeral cortege to arrive, they will be able to peruse Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality on the back of the order of service.
''There hath pass'd away a glory from the earth,'' it will remind them. ''Though nothing can bring back the hour / Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; / We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind.''
Thousands of distinguished guests, the mourning crowds outside, and protest groups of as-yet-unknown size are likely to take different messages from these words.
In a running order reportedly left by Lady Thatcher, there will be no political eulogy from the pulpit. Instead Prime Minister David Cameron will give the second Bible reading, ''I am the way, the truth and the life,'' after granddaughter Amanda Thatcher's first reading: ''Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.'' Advertisement
David Ison, dean of St Paul's, will give thanks for Lady Thatcher's life and work and commend her into God's hands, telling the congregation to ''recall with great gratitude her leadership of this nation''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/immortalised-but-divisive-to-the-end-20130415-2hw5m.html#ixzz2QaPUOqFn
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