I've almost gained my heav'nly home; My spirit loudly sings; The holy ones behold they come, I hear the noise of wings.... O come, angel band, Come and around me stand. O bear me away on your snowy wings, To my immortal home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The preacher then went on to criticise the attitude of religion towards science. "If there is still a feeling of hostility between... them ... it is no longer the fault of religion. There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is so no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea,--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody,--I AM!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young lady called Gloria Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier... And then by six men And Sir Gerald again And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young artist called Saint Who swallowed some samples of paint.... All shades of the spectrum Flowed out of his rectum With a colorful lack of restraint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power corrupts ... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The will to power ... far from being a... characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel the carousel starting slowly And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,... Photographs of friends, the window and the trees Merging in one neutral band that surrounds Me on all sides, everywhere I look.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so... many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on ...to the sidewalk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »