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.
Nice style of art. There were three gifts but I gather the number in the visiting party is not stated because the gifts and their symbolism were the important part of this wonderful story.
From elementary school circa 1965... "We Three Kings of Orient are... Tried to light a rubber cigar. It was loaded And exploded That's how We got so Far."
Puffing on a loaded cigar?
ReplyDeleteHeaded down to Charlies Bar. At least that's the way we sang it when I was mere tot.
ReplyDeleteNOT Shadrach, Meshach, nor Abednego...
ReplyDeleteNice style of art. There were three gifts but I gather the number in the visiting party is not stated because the gifts and their symbolism were the important part of this wonderful story.
ReplyDeleteThankful for the Birth of Our Savior as am I.
ReplyDeleteBear Claw
We three kings of orient are
ReplyDeleteTrying to smoke a Russian cigar
One lit up
He blew up
Following yonder star
There's more verses but I learned them 62 years ago when I was 8. I'm amazed that anonymous comment 1 brought these lines back.
From elementary school circa 1965...
ReplyDelete"We Three Kings of Orient are...
Tried to light a rubber cigar.
It was loaded
And exploded
That's how We got so Far."