Poculum or flûte, calix rather than glass, the history of civilisation could be narrated through the imaginative and bizarre forms that man has given to glasses, goblets and jugs. |
By deciding to embrace suffering he savored, as though intoxicated by that sweet and bitter inebriation, the joy of those words of the psalmist: et calix tuus inebrians quam praeclarus est! |
Most all of them had rough blotches or rings about the calix or around the body. |
You will observe that in some flowers the calix is composed of four or more parts. |
If either of these whorls is absent in a flower, it is the calix. |
And if we wish to penetrate the secret we must not forget the Hebrew psalmist, with his calix meus inebrians quam prclarus est. |