Monday, April 30, 2007

Borrowed Beauty #3

Sans Souci - Rufus W


Sunday, April 29, 2007

Borrowed Beauty #2

Sonnet 94



They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmovèd, cold, and to temptation slow
They rightly do inherit Heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expense.
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity.
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds.
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.


by William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Borrowed Beauty #1

Sandy Denny Lyrics

Late November Lyrics


The wine it was drunk, the ship it was sunk,
The shot it was dead, all the sorrows were drowned.
The birds they were clouds, the brides and the shrouds
And as we drew south the mist it came down.

The wooded ravine to the wandering stream,
The serpent he moved, but no-one would say.
The depths of the waters, the bridge which distraught us
And brought to me thoughts of the ill-fated day.

The temples were filled with the strangest of creatures
One played it by ear on the banks of the sea.
That one was found but the others they went under.
Oh the tears which are shed, they won't come from me.

The methods of madness, the pathos and the sadness,
God help you all, the insane and wise.
The black and the white, the darkness of the night,
I see only smoke from the chimneys arise.

The pilot he flew all across the sky and woke me.
He flew solo on the mercury sea.
The dream it came back, all about the tall brown people,
The sacred young herd on the phosphorous sand.




The Virtues of Vice

Not a long essay on those - and trust me, it would have to be something of majestic proportions.

More of an introduction to the fine art of buggering a first posting. I think I've aced it.
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