All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through: I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn. Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek, I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin: I …
“But at that moment there came a sound like mingled song and laughter. Clear voices rose and fell in the starlit air.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring There is an old story that the origins of the now popular ‘football’ chorus “Ole! Ole! Ole!” is a remnant of the Moors invasion of Spain. …
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I. You think that we who do not shout and shake Our fists at God when youth or bravery die Have colder blood or hearts less apt to ache Than yours who rail. I know you do. Yet why? You have what sorrow always longs to find, Someone to blame, some enemy in chief; Anger’s …
