Song by Klipstein and Krumpacker. Snow and Swarts and as before.

My little island girl
My little island girl
I m going to stay with you
And we wont worry what to do
We won t have to catch any trains
And we won t go home when it rains
We ll gather hibiscus flowers
For it won t be minutes but hours
For it won t be hours but years
And the morning
And the evening
And noontide
and night
Morning
Evening
Noontime
Night
T. S. Eliot


Lines to Ralph Hodgson ( Five Fingers Exercise)

How delightful to meet Mr Hodgson!
(Everyone wants to know HIM)
With his musical sound
And his Baskerville Hound
Which, just at a word from his master
Will follow you faster and faster
And tear you from limb to limb.
How delightful to meet Mr Hodgson
Who is worshipped by all waitresses
(They regard him as something apart)
While on his palate fine he presses
The juice of the gooseberry tart.
How delightful to meet Mr Hodgson!
(Everyone wants to know HIM).
He has 999 canaries
And round his head finches and fairies
In jubilant rapture skim
How delightful to meet Mr Hodgson!
(Everyone wants to meet him.

T. S. Eliot


... .. How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot!
With his features of clerical cut
And his brow so grim
And his mouth so prim
And his conversation, so nicely
Restricted to What Precisely
And if and perhaps and but
How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot!
With a bobtail cur
And a porpentine cat
And a wopsical hat:
How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot!
(Whether his mouth be open or shut)

T. S. Eliot

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Ques: What does the abbreviation D n C stand for
and where did it get its name from?
Answer: Dilatation and Cutterage. The French man
who invented the procedure!

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Dejection an Ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Verses VI and VII:

For Hope grew round me, like the twining vine,
And fruits and foliage, not my own, seemed mine.
But now afflictions bow me down to earth:
Nor I care that they rob me of my mirth;
But Oh! Each visitation
Suspends what Nature gave me at birth
My shaping spirit of imagination.
For not to think of what I needs must feel
But to be still and patient, all I can;
And haply by abstruse research to steal
From my own nature all the natural mine-
This was my sole resource, my only plan
Till that which suits a part infects the whole,
And now is almost the habit of my soul . . . .. .

Verse VII. . .

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,
Reality s dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind,
Which long has raved untouched.What a scream
Of agony by torture lengthened out
That lute sent forth!Thou wind that rav'st without
Bare crag or mountain tairn, or blasted tree,
Or pine-grove whither woodman never clomb.
Or lonely house, long held the witches' home,
Methinks were fitter instruments for thee,
Mad Lutanist! Who in this month of showers,Of dark brown gardens and peeping flowers,
Makest Devil s yule, with worse than wintry song
The blossoms, buds, and timorous leaves among,
Thou Actor, perfect in all tragic sounds!
Thou mighty Poet, e'en to frenzy bold!
What tellest thou now about?
Tis of the rushing of an host in rout,
With groans of trampled men, with smarting wounds-
At once they groan with pain and shudder with the cold!
But Hush! There is a pause of deepest silence!
And all that noise, as of a rushing crowd,
With groans and tremulous shudderrings-all is over-
It tells another, with sounds less deep and loud!
And tempered with delight,
As Otway's self had framed the tender lay,-
Tis of a little child
Upon a lonesome wild.
Not far from home, but she hath lost her way:
And now moans low in bitter grief and fear,
And now screams loud, and hopes to make her father hear.


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Words and their Meanings:

SUCCOUR: Verb, To help. Help, relief, support, given to one in difficulty or danger. Auxilliary troops, reinforcements.

VOUCHSAFE: To undertake that it is safe, to condescend to grant, to give as an act of grace, eg "Can you VOUCHSAFE ME a few minutes of conversation; I think he might have at least vouchsafed an answer.

A WOODCOCK is what or who ....... A CLUE: Scientific Name- Scolopax rusticula. Answer for next time!

Signing off Blossom the Basil burger s Doll!


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