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Well, I very big thank you for all the new entries


Bridget who must try to think of something to add

Not by Wordsworth.

The first time we kissed,
I closed my eyes;
You closed yours -
And we missed!

Happydays

Re the death quote above. here's another one - it's being so cheerful what keeps me going, as mrs Mopp used to say.

The world itself is but a large prison out of which some are daily led out for execution.

Blame Sir Walter Raleigh.

Happy days

Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock, our neighbours drove me home.

In the porch, I met my father crying.
He had always taken funerals in his stride.
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand.

And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble",
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand.

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now.

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

"There is no escape from the dull fatality of death" (Will Durant).

I just popped in to see if there were any new postings and delighted to read the new entries. It is so rewarding to see this thread continuing and thought that I would say THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR KEEPING THIS THREAD ALIVE".

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and a Healthy New Year.

Bridget in Spain




:-) :-)

Woodrow Wilson said

Golf is a game in which one endeavours to control a ball with implements ill-adapted for the purpose

A stanza about birthstones for this month

If cold December gave you birth,
The month of snow and ice and mirth,
Place on your hand a turquoise blue;
Success will bless whate'er you do.

Part of a longer Gregorian Poem.
Januarys to follow

Sneeze,

Yes a lovely little poem. For the sake of posterity, the author is Emily Bruce Roelofsen.

Best wishes Happy days

T.S.Elliot.

We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of our exploring,
Will be to arrive where we started,
And know the place for the first time.

The Internet is absolute communication within absolute isolation.


Bridget

MAY THE ROOF ABOVE
NEVER FALL IN
MAY WE BELOW
NEVER FALL OUT..

A life spent making mistakes, is not only honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing...George Bernard Shaw

'More than you need will always be greed'.

A SCOTS TOAST

''MAY THE BEST YOU'VE EVER SEEN
BE THE WORST YOU;LL EVER SEE;
MAY THE MOUSE NE'ER LEAVE YOUR GIRNAL
WI' A TEAR DRAP IN ITS E'E
MAY YOUR LUM KEEP BLITHELY REEKIN'
TILL YE'RE AULD ENOUGH TO DEE;
MAY YOU AYE BE JUST AS HAPPY
AS I WISH YOU NOW TO BE!"

FOR 2012
TO LOVED ONES FAR AND NEAR STAY SAFE .
AND TO ABSENT FREINDS

"Tell the truth & shame the devil".

Found this to share with you all'


From quiet homes and first beginnings,
Out to undiscovered ends,
There is nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter, and the love of friends.

Hillaire Belloc's 'Dedicatory Ode'

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem........Bill Vaughan

Colin Firth said...my singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem

Thanks Mau. Just testing. Lovely sunday school words you (and Sneeze)print.
Our version had the second line "with a pure clear light".

Also remember "if you don't go to Sunday school you';ll grow up to be bad. For I want the Lord to be proud of me......

Best wishes Happy days

Jesus bids us shine,
First of all for Him;
Well He sees and knows it,
If our light grows dim.
He looks down from Heaven
To see us shine
You in your small corner,
And I in mine.

Jesus bids us shine,
Then, for all around;
Many kinds of darkness
In the world are found
Sin and want and sorrow;
So we must shine
You in your small corner,
And I in mine.

Mau

Hi Sneeze....I used to sing that verse at Sunday school,perhaps that's where your mum learnt it? :-)

Mau xx