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.
Quite a few of us follow this blog, not just for entertainment, but for information we're unable to find/obtain elsewhere BTW: I think girls with freckles are far more beautiful, particularly those with emerald green eyes
Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
Aren't freckled people more likely to get melanoma?
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DeleteHey! No wet blankets on this fun series of posts.
DeleteYa, what "Anonymous" said!
DeleteQuite a few of us follow this blog, not just for entertainment, but for information we're unable to find/obtain elsewhere
ReplyDeleteBTW: I think girls with freckles are far more beautiful, particularly those with emerald green eyes
Glory be to God for dappled things—
ReplyDeleteFor skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty