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.
A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican, He can take in his beak Enough food for a week But I'm damned if I see how the helican!
catch, no release
ReplyDeleteA wonderful bird is the pelican,
ReplyDeleteHis bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm damned if I see how the helican!
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-wonderful-bird-is-the-pelican-by-dixon-lanier-merritt
And all these years I thought it was Ogden Nash.