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billycasper



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 22:02    Post subject: 250 Reply with quote

Happy Birthday, sir!



"I die, I die!" the Mother said,
"My children die for lack of bread.
What more has the merciless Tyrant said?"
The Monk sat down on the stony bed.

The blood red ran from the Grey Monk's side,
His hands and feet were wounded wide,
His body bent, his arms and knees
Like to the roots of ancient trees.

His eye was dry; no tear could flow:
A hollow groan first spoke his woe.
He trembled and shudder'd upon the bed;
At length with a feeble cry he said:

"When God commanded this hand to write
In the studious hours of deep midnight,
He told me the writing I wrote should prove
The bane of all that on Earth I lov'd.

My Brother starv'd between two walls,
His Children's cry my soul appalls;
I mock'd at the rack and griding chain,
My bent body mocks their torturing pain.

Thy father drew his sword in the North,
With his thousands strong he marched forth;
Thy Brother has arm'd himself in steel
To avenge the wrongs thy Children feel.

But vain the Sword and vain the Bow,
They never can work War's overthrow.
The Hermit's prayer and the Widow's tear
Alone can free the World from fear.

For a Tear is an intellectual thing,
And a Sigh is the sword of an Angel King,
And the bitter groan of the Martyr's woe
Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.

The hand of Vengeance found the bed
To which the Purple Tyrant fled;
The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head
And became a Tyrant in his stead."
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Bev



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 17:19    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good call - & well done for typing all of that one in rather than something shorter like The Sick Rose.... (or was it just a cutandpaste job?)
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discoRdance



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 20:27    Post subject: Reply with quote

MARTIN CARR AND HIS TWIN BROTHER... SEPERATED AT BIRTH?!






Martin Carr, the leader of the band, and his twin brother (left), trying out Martin's guitar























I got you both a present...







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Dave w.



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 21:34    Post subject: Reply with quote

happy birthday!
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billycasper



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 21:52    Post subject: Reply with quote

erm, was actually marking william blake's 250th (hence the subject line), but hey, why not pretend i'd remembered the captain too. happy birthday to you, sir, too! maybe i should go post on a blake forum about that.

billyx
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Tommy BOO



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 22:16    Post subject: Reply with quote

ahoy! happy birthday clartin!

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discoRdance



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 22:17    Post subject: Reply with quote

ah, I was thinking Martin didn't look a day over 249 Razz

I made it the birthday thread, sorry.
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