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billycasper
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 23
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 22:02 Post subject: 250 |
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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
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 17:19 Post subject: |
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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?) _________________ Scattershot Writing: www.jameseverington.blogspot.com |
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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 20:27 Post subject: |
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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...
and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Dave w.
Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 840
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 21:34 Post subject: |
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happy birthday! |
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billycasper
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 23
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 21:52 Post subject: |
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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
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3066 Location: here, there, and everywhere
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 22:16 Post subject: |
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ahoy! happy birthday clartin!
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius"
-BC
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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 22:17 Post subject: |
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ah, I was
thinking
Martin didn't look a day over 249
I made it the birthday thread, sorry. |
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