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The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead
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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:37:40 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Home is behind, the world ahead
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by! |
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Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well! |
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Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed! |
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To: RosieCotton
Noticed it just now because you mentioned it.
4,181
posted on
01/04/2006 1:59:12 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: Corin Stormhands
Unbelievable, isn't it? :-D
4,182
posted on
01/04/2006 1:59:27 PM PST
by
RMDupree
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To: Corin Stormhands
We're having a "let's make a dinner thirty percent of the family will hate" night. Which is ok, because we girls were thinking about grabbing dinner out anyway.
4,183
posted on
01/04/2006 2:05:58 PM PST
by
JenB
To: JenB
You don't have to sit at the table till you eat it?
4,184
posted on
01/04/2006 2:29:04 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog
Not that I agree with much of what Sharon has been doing lately, but between this and the coal miners, this year is starting out as rotten as last year!
Stop the world,I want to get off!!
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Not yet, I want another summer. :~D
4,186
posted on
01/04/2006 3:16:47 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
On the other hand, maybe it means the year doesn't have room to do much but get better.
One can hope.
To: HairOfTheDog
To: RosieCotton; Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Hey - LCS can't sit in sunny FLA and stop the world while it's January here. That's just not fair!
4,189
posted on
01/04/2006 3:23:34 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: RMDupree; All
Thanks :)
I'm YMing The Unknown just now. I don't think it'll be backgammon, but it won't be a soon goodbye, either :)
4,190
posted on
01/04/2006 4:10:05 PM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(What a long, strange trip it's been...)
To: HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton
That's just not fair!So who says life is fair -- besides it got lower than 50 here last night!
To: HairOfTheDog
Heh...yeah, it'd leave a lot of us in a Narnia-like world...only without cool talking animals and stuff.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
So who says life is fair -- besides it got lower than 50 here last night! Cry me a river. ;-)
Actually, I'm kinda pleased to hear we're supposed to get snow tonight and tomorrow, especially seeing as how I'm not going anywhere. Granted, I'd prefer to have a job and that the snow be a slight nuisance because of that...but I'll take what joys I can get right now!
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
When I was in social services I used to say "If you want fair, go to Puyallup in September" (pronound pew-allup - that's where our state fair is). Our Vietnamese interpreter always cracked up when I said that. I mean ~really~ thought it was funny. I was always concerned that when she translated it to Vietnamese, it meant something quiet different.
But if that's so, she left me out of the joke ;~D
Rosie will like this, because she loves the word Puyallup.
4,194
posted on
01/04/2006 4:37:59 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: RosieCotton
Snow, huh? Hmmm... what about Saturday?
4,195
posted on
01/04/2006 4:44:38 PM PST
by
JenB
To: JenB
Oops...dang...doesn't say snow anymore.
Things change so quickly here! *sigh* Unless I read the wrong report earlier. But it often does change.
To: HairOfTheDog
Rosie will like this, because she loves the word Puyallup.Ha! Well...it's just such a fascinating name! ;-)
To: RosieCotton; All
I won't spam. I
won't.I'm still YMing her.
4,198
posted on
01/04/2006 4:58:16 PM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(What a long, strange trip it's been...)
To: RosieCotton
It does change, yeah. Maybe you accidentally read the forecast for back home?
4,199
posted on
01/04/2006 5:19:16 PM PST
by
JenB
To: JenB
4,200
posted on
01/04/2006 5:19:31 PM PST
by
JenB
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