Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
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4. The Gallery Of Postcards And Ephemera Clue

Whoever said diamonds are a girl's best friend never loved a dog He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. --Walter Scott She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.-Frances E. Willard, How I Learned To Ride The Bicycle, 1895 'And make her some great Princess, six feet high, Grand, epic, homicidal; and be you The Prince to win her!' -Tennyson, The Princess
'A prince I was, blue-eyed and fair in face...' --Tennyson, The Princess Likely the best approximation to be found in an old postcard But there be others, happier few, The vagabondish sons of God, Who know the by-ways and the flowers, And care not how the world may plod. They idle down the traffic lands, And loiter through the woods with spring; To them the glory of the earth Is but to hear a bluebird sing. --Bliss Carman, The Mendicants Although known for being high in potassium (422 mg per medium banana), bananas are also a good source of other essential nutrients such as vitamins B6 and C, fiber, manganese, folate, and magnesium. In trace amounts, bananas also contain: copper, calcium, zinc, iron, vitamin E, and selenium.
Ineffable languor... Ydw. Gofynnwch i mi, Syr. Byddaf yn dod. The Night Visitor Too dark to feel you near, -Or not enough of black -To link our distant minds, -And light the ancient track. --Memory, the traitor here; -Beauty felt, but not seen, -At the core of living flame, -Where true minds have been. ---Looking into the Flame by Tony Kline
No flower of her kindred, no rose-bud is nigh, to reflect back her blushes or give sigh for sigh. Revelation via medium... Promise of love matching glory. Revenez bien vite partager mon amite
J'ecoute sa voix, Si tendre et si chere. Visions... so much beauty Tormented with regrets; longing for fulfillment. Tormented with regrets; longing for fulfillment.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. -Aphra Behn Care fidei secretum. Viventium carissimo, et super vitam dilligendo, intime devocionis amica; queque optima ex toto corde et anima.Non te ignorare credo o meum dulce lumen quod nunquam superpositi cineres suffocant sopitum ignem, et si prohibent lucere, tamen non vetabunt semper ardere. Ita nulla extrinsecus accidentia aliqua racione poterunt obsolere tui memoriale, quod cordi meo adnexui aureo vinculamine. Quid ultra? Deum enim testem habeo, quod vera et sincera dilectione te dilligo. Vale maxima dulcedo mea. Ne tardes venire; quanto cicius veneris, tanto cicius invenies unde gaudebis.
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8. The Henry David Thoreau Clue

Robert Plant Conundrum - Henry David Thoreau, who always stepped to the beat of a different drummer.
Friendship

I think awhile of Love, and while I think,
     Love is to me a world,
     Sole meat and sweetest drink,
     And close connecting link
       Tween heaven and earth.

I only know it is, not how or why,
     My greatest happiness;
     However hard I try,
     Not if I were to die,
       Can I explain.

I fain would ask my friend how it can be,
     But when the time arrives,
     Then Love is more lovely
     Than anything to me,
       And so I'm dumb.

For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak,
     But only thinks and does;
     Though surely out 'twill leak
     Without the help of Greek,
       Or any tongue.

A man may love the truth and practise it,
     Beauty he may admire,
     And goodness not omit,
     As much as may befit
       To reverence.

But only when these three together meet,
     As they always incline,
     And make one soul the seat,
     And favorite retreat,
       Of loveliness;

When under kindred shape, like loves and hates
     And a kindred nature,
     Proclaim us to be mates,
     Exposed to equal fates
       Eternally;

And each may other help, and service do,
     Drawing Love's bands more tight,
     Service he ne'er shall rue
     While one and one make two,
       And two are one;

In such case only doth man fully prove
     Fully as man can do,
     What power there is in Love
     His inmost soul to move
       Resistlessly.

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Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side,
     Withstand the winter's storm,
     And spite of wind and tide,
     Grow up the meadow's pride,
       For both are strong

Above they barely touch, but undermined
     Down to their deepest source,
     Admiring you shall find
     Their roots are intertwined
       Insep'rably.

Thoreau's close friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote: The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal. --It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals, and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

 LINK: The Eulogy of Henry David Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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