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Question about Heavenletter #5106 There is only going forward

Posted November 19th, 2014 by Wanda

Hello!

I'm working on the spanish translation of Heavenletter #5106, and i've come across an expression i dont understand: "Some of My children are gripped to remorse, regret, rue of past actions or non-actions.". What does rue of past actions mean?

Later i see again this expression: "Rue and regret are a Never Land that keep you from entering the present".

Any help is welcome :)

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Beloved Wanda, thank you for

On November 19th, 2014 Gloria Wen... says:

Beloved Wanda, thank you for asking, angel.

Rue and regret mean about the same. The connotation I have for rue is sweeter, more like bittersweet, strong rue for the past, more missing it than regret except, as in this poem, youth is gone. I have always loved this poem, the sound and the meaning:

A. E. Housman (1859–1936). A Shropshire Lad. 1896.

With rue my heart is laden

WITH rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.

Let us know dear, Wanda, if this makes the meaning of rue more understandable.

Yes!

On November 20th, 2014 Wanda says:

It definitely helps Gloria, thanks!