Timepiece

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of."
-- Benjamin Franklin

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The Dragonfly

"Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky."
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon

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The Cat

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
-- Mark Twain

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Ferris Wheel

"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."
-- E. B. White

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Tigh Mor

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

--Robert Burns



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the Wearin' o' the Green

"Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland -- here's a drink to his health!
But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see them snakes again!"
-- Author Unknown

Photo by Jon Sullivan, PDPhoto.org, Public Domain

The Pied Piper

And even spoiled the women's chats,
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.

--Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Illustration is by Kate Greenaway, from the 1888 edition of Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Public Domain