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...as suddenly as it had come the storm abated

Extremes demand those verbs so antiquated

Archaic and abhorred and second-rated

Yet still they stand like moorland rocks in mist

And wait as I do till the storm has passed

Buy postcards at the parsonage museum shop

Sit half an hour in the tea room drying off

And pen a word or two to my three muses

Who after all presented their excuses

But nonetheless the three all have their uses....Read more of this...

...sleep hast thou. 
Wake lusty! Seem I not as tender to him 
As any mother? Ay, but such a one 
As all day long hath rated at her child, 
And vext his day, but blesses him asleep-- 
Good lord, how sweetly smells the honeysuckle 
In the hushed night, as if the world were one 
Of utter peace, and love, and gentleness! 
O Lancelot, Lancelot'--and she clapt her hands-- 
'Full merry am I to find my goodly knave 
Is knight and noble. See now, sworn have I, 
Else yon black fe...Read more of this...

...,

Many a dear mouth's flying kisses
We've neglected lightly.

Mute and silent have we sat,

Whilst the blockheads prated,
And above e'en song divine

Have their babblings rated;
To account we've even call'd us

For the moments that enthrall'd us,
With enjoyment freighted.

If thou'lt absolution grant

To thy true ones ever,
We, to execute thy will,

Ceaseless will endeavour,
From half-measures strive to wean us,

Wholly, fairly, well demean us,
Resting, flagging neve...Read more of this...

...tween;
Yeh, some is scum and some is dumb, and some is just plumb cold;
But of straight-shootin' Dawson dames Maree was rated queen,
As pretty as a pansy, wi' a heart o' Hunker gold.
And so although I didn't know her more that passin' by,
I told how Spike would seek my Boss, and jobless I would be;
She listened sympathetic like: "Zut! Baby, don't you cry;
I lend to you zee hundred bucks," said Montreal Maree.

Now though I zippered up my mug somehow the story spread
T...Read more of this...

...On the dread day of final scrutiny
Thou wilt be rated by thy quality;
Get wisdom and fair qualities to-day,
For, as thou art, requited wilt thou be....Read more of this...

...Poor Cinderella, whose stepmom was mean,
could never see films rated PG-13.
She hadn’t a cell phone and no DVD,
no notebook computer or pocket TV.
She wasn’t allowed to play video games.
The tags on her clothes had unfashionable names.
Her shoes were not trendy enough to be cool.
No limousine chauffeur would drive her to school.
Her house had no drawing room; only a den.
Her bedtime, poor darling, was quarter pa...Read more of this...

...
A chamber had he in that hostelry
Alone, withouten any company,
Full *fetisly y-dight* with herbes swoot*, *neatly decorated*
And he himself was sweet as is the root *sweet
Of liquorice, or any setewall*. *valerian
His Almagest, and bookes great and small,
His astrolabe, belonging to his art,
His augrim stones, layed fair apart
On shelves couched* at his bedde's head, *laid, set
His press y-cover'd with a falding* red. *coarse cloth
And all above there lay a...Read more of this...

...our old homely acts, 
 And the long-ago commonplace facts 
Of our lives--held by us as scarce part of our story, 
 And rated as nought!" 

XIII 

 Then bitterly some: "Was it wise now 
 To raise the tomb-door 
 For such knowledge? Away!" 
 But the rest: "Fame we prized till to-day; 
Yet that hearts keep us green for old kindness we prize now 
 A thousand times more!" 

XIV 

 Thus speaking, the trooped apparitions 
 Began to disband 
 And resolve them in two: 
 Those whose r...Read more of this...

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