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The Flight Of The Wild Geese

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

Wrapt in the darkness of the night,

Gathering in silence on the shore,

Reciprocal Kindness The Primary Law Of Nature

© William Cowper

Androcles, from his injured lord, in dread

Of instant death, to Lybia's desert fled,

There was a youthful genius once, a boy of thirteen years,
Named Cyrus Franklin Edison Lavoisier De Squeers.
To study he was not inclined, for fun he had a bent;
But there was just one article he wanted to invent.

Eclogue V

© Virgil

Menalcas.
Why, Mopsus, being both together met,
You skilled to breathe upon the slender reeds,
I to sing ditties, do we not sit down
Here where the elm-trees and the hazels blend?

Gone Away

© William Henry Ogilvie

He's away ! '- With a quickened wild beat of the heart

Every horseman responds, riding hard for a start,

In The Land Of The Bumbley Boo

© Spike Milligan

In the land of the Bumbley Boo
The People are red white and blue,
They never blow noses,
Or ever wear closes,
What a sensible thing to do!

The Flag

© Julia A Moore

See the glorious stars and stripes,

Floating over there;

Robert E. Lee

© Stephen Vincent Benet

The man was loved, the man was idolized,
The man had every just and noble gift.
He took great burdens and he bore them well,

Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament

© Andrew Lang

Balow, my boy, ly still and sleep,

It grieves me sore to hear thee weep,

Nebuchadnezzar's Fall

© Robert Graves

Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told,
Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun,
The King of Persia walked: oh, the chilling cold!
His mind was webbed with a grey shroud vapour-spun.

To Night

© Thomas Lovell Beddoes

So thou art come again, old black-winged night,

Like an huge bird, between us and the sun,

The Cock-Fighter's Garland

© William Cowper

Muse -- hide his name of whom I sing,
Lest his surviving house thou bring
For his sake into scorn,
Nor speak the school from which he drew,
The much or little that he knew,
Nor place where he was born.

A Shrine In The Pantheon

FOR THE UNNAMED SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN FRANCE

Universal approval has been accorded the proposal made in the French Chamber that the ashes of an unnamed French soldier, fallen for his country, shall be removed with solemn ceremony to the Pantheon. In this way it is intended to honor by a symbolic ceremony the memory of all who lie in unmarked graves.