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• And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
  -- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
• I saw Eternity the other night, / Like a great ring of pure and endless light, / All calm, as it was brigh
  / And round beneath it, / Time in hours, days, years, / Driv'n by the spheres / Like a vast shadow mov'd...
• I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was brigh
  And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled....
• Abe: Anyway, about my washtub...I just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a "walking bird".
  We'd always have walking bird on Thanksgiving with all the trimming...
• Some days I look my best in a thick fog.
• All the lines have been written There's been Sandburg, It's sad but it's true Keats, Poe and McKuen With all the words gone, They all had their day What's a young poet to do?
  And knew what they're doin' But of all the words written The bird is a strange one, And all the lines read, So small and so tender There's one I like most, Its breed still unknown, And by a bird it was said!...
• The bank called to tell me that I'm overdrawn, Some freaks are burning crosses out on my front lawn, And I *can't*believe* it, all the Cheetos are gone, It's just ONE OF THOSE DAYS!
  -- Weird Al Yankovic, "One of Those Day...
• Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,--how then?
  Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound?...
• I have touched the highest point of all my greatne
  And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting...