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Posted on 06/26/2004 8:07:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Special Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
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Sting and dude from Twin Peaks Dune?
Well, OK. I saw it when I was 20, and have just become 40. Guess it's pretty old. :)
Ahem...I saw it when I was about 25. ;-)
Yes, it's old. But there a newer version out and I'm not watching it...I'm watching the Sting one...
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind, the Gates of Hercules,
Before him not the ghosts of shores,
Before him only shoreless seas;
The good mate said, "Now must we pray,
For lo! The very stars are gone!
Brave Admiral, speak! What shall I say?"
"Why sail! Sail on, and on, and on!"
They sailed, they sailed; he kept his deck
And peered through darkness; Ah, that night
Of all dark nights! And then a speck,
A light, a light, a light, a light!
It grew, a starlit flag unfurled,
It grew to be time’s burst of dawn;
He gained a world, He gave that world
Its grandest lesson: "On! Sail on!"
"Brave Admiral, say but one good word,
What shall we do when hope is gone?"
The words leap like a leaping sword,
"Sail on, sail on, sail on, and on!"*
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O UNION, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
‘Tis of the wave and not the rock;
‘Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest’s roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears
Our faith triumphant o’er our fears,
Are all with thee, are all with thee! **
*Joaquin Miller
**Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You give me hope then; you are still young enough to have Jedis, and I was beginning to think I could not. Thanks.
I had my eldest when I was 32 and my youngest when 36.
They make me feel younger now than when I was in my 20s!
My great Grandmother and my grandmother were both still having kids when they were my age... and I'm 46. So, there is indeed still hope! :-)
Even for me!!! :-)
But, it's interesting to have an uncle who's just older than me... And my Grama and her mom had kids the same month. LOL
Well, I'll be 42 on my next birthday and if the Lord gave me a little unexpected surprise, I wouldn't mind!
Sometimes I even think about adopting...maybe after Steve graduates I will give it more serious thought.
The presence of the young is contagious, in my experience.
He Heee
I just found my MIA St. Christopher medal. He's been gone 3 years, and found today while cleaning a closet.
More on my snake killin' story from yesterday. Jason and Stephanie are here this afternoon after all the town 4th of July activities. I was tellin' them about that demon creature from hell that I lawnmower murdered yesterday afternoon.....
So.... they decided they needed to go out and check the thing out since I wouldn't get close enough to do more than ride over it with the lawnmower and insure that it wasn't gonna *ever* slither again!
Aunt Cheryl wanted to measure how long the thing was too... I had guessed the length at 2 feet from when I first saw it slidin' through the grass... but she took a yard stick out there...
I still wasn't about to go within 10 feet of that thing even a day dead so I stayed in the house... and here come Aunt Cheryl, Stephanie and the kids back in the house tellin' me that thing was a stinkin' rattlebug!!!! 2 rattles and a button!!! And it was female... had dead baby snakes showin' in where the lawnmower had chopped it up!!! Cripes!!! She stretched it out as best she could for how long it had been dead... said it wouldn't go real straight but measured 29 inches long and she figures it's not quite 3 feet but just a few inches shy!!!
NOW whatdaya'll think? That thing coulda got these darlin' kids playin' out in the yard!!!!
WN is a self-proclaimed HERO now!!! Thanks to the lawnmower.
A snake??? When did you run over a snake?? I missed that story, I guess!!
What's a "rattlebug"?
Yippee!!
Did you know I lost my Rayban Wayfarers a couple of years ago and when my mom went to trade in her old Chrysler on the new Aviator, she found 'em??
I love having them back!
Hey, cool poem! I never read that before--thanks! :)
I'm loving having Ivy (age 4) and Elias (age 5) around this week. It really does make you feel lots and lots younger to play with kids all the time. :-)
Today at the 4th of July celebration the local police (2 guys) had a tent set up to do photo and fingerprint ID's of kids. Ivy went in with Stephanie to get hers done, I was standing there watching and while the cop was fingerprinting her he was talkin' to her and askin' her questions about what she liked to do and stuff. She looked up and told him, "Kim is my *favorite* cousin." *GRINNING*
What on earth can be cooler than having a 4 year old think you're their *favorite?* :-D
I'm 36, and if I have one at my age, it'll probably be one I adopt... Preferably an older child that puts me back on the schedule I should have been on in an ideal world.
Perhaps a child already old enough to have a pony. Like Corin's Jr!
Just got your cute card... No, thank ~you~! ;~D
((Ruthy))
ecurbh -n- Hair
Whoa!! Amazing!
Well, we don't have rattlers, but a place I used to live, when I roomed with Lisa, we had ooooooodles of garter snakes. little ones, big ones, everywhere. You couldn't mow without hitting them. Sometimes I'd try to let them get away, sometimes there were so many I'd just try to cut them up to decrease their numbers! Hardly any here, not sure why.
Okay, I *know* where you live is beautiful. I know it's great for your horses. I know it's peaceful. I have seen it and loved it.... but that one statement.... "Hardly any here, not sure why." is the most glorious thing you can say to me about where you live!!!! Them things just ain't natural! They aren't right! They shouldn't BE!!!! I would love to live in a place where they *don't* live!!! EEEK!!! You have discovered the one fear I have that I don't even have a desire to try to overcome!!!
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