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Wherever He Laid His Hat
Rhymes of a Rolling StoneRobert W. (Robert William) Service I just think that dreams are best,Just to sit and fancy things;Give your gold no acid test,Try not how your silver rings;Fancy women pure and good,Fancy men upright and true:Fortressed in your solitude,Let Life be a dream to you. For I think that Thought is all;Truth’s Continue reading
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Andrew McMahon in The Wilderness & Japanese Wallpaper – Stars (Remix) Empire of the Sun – Music on the Radio – Ask That GodChet Porter [feat. Vancouver Sleep Clinic] – Things I Wish I Could ForgetLondon Grammar – House (Solomun Remix)Tom Rosenthal [feat. Billie Martin] – Hugging You (Acoustic) – Z-Sides SYML – OblivionFirst Aid Continue reading
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Stare At Me Well
Ballads of a CheechakoRobert W. (Robert William) Service You know these Yukon eggs of ours–some pink, some green, some blue–A dollar per, assorted tints, assorted flavors too.The supercilious cheechako might designate them high,But one acquires a taste for them and likes them by-and-by.Well, Hard-Luck Henry took this egg and held it to the light,And there Continue reading
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God Was Tired When He Made It
The Spell of the Yukon and Other VersesRobert W. (Robert William) Service The music almost died away … then it burst like a pent-up flood;And it seemed to say, “Repay, repay,” and my eyes were blind with blood.The thought came back of an ancient wrong, and it stung like a frozen lash,And the lust awoke Continue reading
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Come On and Hear
Alexander’s BridgeWilla Sibert Cather He put his arm about her. “All the same, life runs smoothly enough with some people, and with me it’s always a messy sort of patchwork. It’s like the song; peace is where I am not. How can you face it all with so much fortitude?” She looked at him with Continue reading
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Lark in my Heartbeat
The Song of the LarkWilla Sibert Cather Thea looked across the table at the uncompromising countenances of her older brothers. “Why, what’s the matter with the Mexicans?” she asked, flushing. “They don’t trouble anybody, and they are kind to their families and have good manners.” “Nice clean people; got some style about them. Do you Continue reading
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All These Wonders by the Master’s Hand
We are at 150 days and counting! O Pioneers!Willa Sibert Cather “I’m sure I don’t want to live to be more than thirty, do you? Do you think Alexandra likes him very much?” “I suppose so. They were old friends.” “Oh, Emil, you know what I mean!” Marie tossed her head impatiently. “Does she really Continue reading
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Float Until I Sink
It’s been a long post-Memorial Day My AntoniaWilla Sibert Cather ‘”Oh, cattle,” he says, “you’ll all take care of your cattle! Ain’t you got no beer here?” I told him he’d have to go to the Bohemians for beer; the Norwegians didn’t have none when they threshed. “My God!” he says, “so it’s Norwegians now, Continue reading
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Goodbye to Keeping Time
Happy Memorial Day The DusantesA Sequel to “The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine”Frank Richard Stockton “This lady was a dear friend of my mother, although younger than she. I adopted her as a mother to my little orphan sister, and, consequently, placed her in the same maternal relation to myself, doing this Continue reading
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Dredging of Great White Sharks
We’re in the middle of Memorial Day Weekend The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. AleshineFrank Richard Stockton When the little party, consisting of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, Mr. Enderton, my newly made wife, and myself, with the red-bearded coxswain and the two sailormen, bade farewell to that island in the Pacific where Continue reading
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