They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They’ve got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they’re restless They […]
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’, Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world, Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’, Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody […]
All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion. Edmund Burke On Conciliation with America (1775)
Lyset skinner i mørket, og mørket har ikke overvunnet det. Johannes 1. kap, 5. v.
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s […]
Incline our hearts to keep this law. Holy Communion, the Ten Commandments (response)
Somewhere beyond the scorched gable end and the burnt-out buses there is a poet indulging his wretched rage for order. Derek Mahon (1941-) Rage for Order (1978)
O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations. Charles Dickens The Chimes (1844)
Emis – young, twenty-eight – reached this Syrian harbour in a Tenian ship, his plan to learn the incense trade. But ill during the voyage, he died as soon as he was put ashore. His burial, the poorest possible, took place here. A few hours befor dying he wispered something about «home», about «very old […]
Man hat viel beissend abgefasste Schriften, Die, dass ein Gott sei, nich gestehen wollen; Jedoch den Teufel hat, soviel ich weiss, Kein Atheist noch bündig wegbewiesen. We’ve had some very caustic writings Unwilling to concede that God exists. However, the devil, so far as I’m aware No atheist has yet quite proved away. Heinrich von […]
