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THE SNOW FAIRY I Throughout the afternoon I watched them there, Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky, Whirling fantastic in the misty air, Contending fierce for space supremacy. And they flew down a mightier force at night, As though in heaven there was revolt and riot, And they, frail things had taken panic flight [...] ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN Not for all the whiskey in heaven Not for all the flies in Vermont Not for all the tears in the basement Not for a million trips to Mars Not if you paid me in diamonds Not if you paid me in pearls Not if you gave me your pinky [...] THE USES OF POETRY I’ve fond anticipation of a day O’erfilled with pure diversion presently, For I must read a lady poesy The while we glide by many a leafy bay, Hid deep in rushes, where at random play The glossy black winged May-flies, or whence flee Hush-throated nestlings in alarm, Whom we have idly [...] SO LONG 1 To conclude—I announce what comes after me; I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the present, depart. I remember I said, before my leaves sprang at all, I would raise my voice jocund and strong, with reference to consummations. When America does what was promis’d, When there are [...] THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM – THE ’59 SOUND Well I wonder which song they’re going to play when we go I hope it’s something quiet, mannered, peaceful, and slow When we float out into the ether Into the everlasting arms I hope we don’t hear Marley’s chains before July ‘Cause the chains I’ve been hearing [...] NOFX – FRANCO UN-AMERICAN I never thought about the universe, it made me feel small Never thought about the problems of this planet at all Global warming, radioactive sites Imperialistic wrongs and animal rights! no! Why think of all the bad things when life is so good? Why help with an ‘am’ when there’s [...] PEACE When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut, Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs? When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, [...] Written by one, stolen and made famous by the other. NICK LOWE & ELVIS COSTELLO – WHAT’S SO FUNNY (‘BOUT PEACE LOVE & UNDERSTANDING) As I walk through This wicked world Searchin’ for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? [...] LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA LONG, too long America, Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn’d from joys and prosperity only, But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grap- pling with direst fate and recoiling not, And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are, [...] |
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