And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Pensive? Maybe. Or is it fantasizing? There is a trifle, but yet discernable difference. About the same difference as the thin line between genius and insanity.
My regrets for butchering the poem. The word "pensive" got my mind rolling. "For on my couch I wander lonely as a cloud In vacant or in pensive mood Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with a host of golden daffodils." ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ - Williams Wordsworth 1804
Pensive? Maybe. Or is it fantasizing? There is a trifle, but yet discernable difference. About the same difference as the thin line between genius and insanity.
ReplyDeletePensive: To betray your President Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteMy regrets for butchering the poem. The word "pensive" got my mind rolling.
ReplyDelete"For on my couch
I wander lonely as a cloud
In vacant or in pensive mood
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with a host of golden daffodils."
‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ - Williams Wordsworth 1804
I read this in Bullwinkle’s voice.
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