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20201222 Tuesday

Sonnet 30

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight;
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45091/sonnet-30-when-to-the-sessions-of-sweet-silent-thought

Ursids 小熊座流星群

They have long been thought to have been white with a high degree of inbreeding

Inbreeding 近親交配

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55409187

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/all-that-glitters-uk-retailers-shift-away-from-plastic-christmas

Glitter is an environmental abomination. It’s time to stop using it

Abomination 忌まわしい

Seafloor 海底