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We love the kindly wind and hail,
The jolly thunderbolt,
We watch in glee the fairy trail
Of ampere, watt, and volt.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
When called by a panther,
Don't anther.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
How pleasant to sit on the beach,
On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,
With ocean galore within reach,
And nothing at all to be done!.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks
Doth practically conceal its sex
I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix to be so fertile.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Perhaps indeed the possession of wealth is constantly distressing,
But I should be quite willing to assume every curse of wealth if I could at the same time assume every blessing.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Silly girl, silver girl,
Draw the mirror toward you;
Time who makes the years to whirl
Adorned as he adored you.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
Contrariwise, my blood runs cold
When little boys go by.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
I dont' mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it,
But I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Time is timelessness for you;
Calendars for the human;
What's a year, or thirty, to
Loveliness made woman?
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
The sky is now indelible ink,
The branches reft asunder;
But you and I we do not shrink;
We love the lovely thunder.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
The weather is so very mild
That some would call it warm.
Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?
Here comes a thunderstorm.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
all, and I recommend to you this moral:
In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
I hope of lightning our supply
Will never be exhausted;
You know it's lanterns in the sky
For angels who are losted.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Fear not the thunder, little one.
It's weather, simply weather;
It's friendly giants full of fun
Clapping their hands together.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
The garden is a raging sea,
The hurricane is snarling;
Oh, happy you and happy me!
Isn't the lightning darling?
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Oh, than to enjoy a storm like this
There's nothing I would rather,
Don't dive between the blankets, Miss!
Or else leave room for Father.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
I wish to retire till the party's over.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)