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"Footprints," also known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular modern allegorical Christian poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one of which belonged to God and another to themselves. At some points the two pairs of footprints dwindle to one; it is explained that this is where God carried the protagonist.
The poem refers to the confinement between 1945 and 1958 of Ezra Pound in St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. The nursery rhyme style gives an unusual effect to the strange or unsettling descriptions of a psychiatric hospital in the poem. Likewise the poem treats Pound ambivalently describing him by turns as "honored", "brave", "cruel ...
The B-side is an instrumental version of the song with narration of the poem by disc jockey Johnny Dark. [ 2 ] The song has no relation to a 1961 song "Footprints In The Sand" written by Gwynn Elias & Irving Reid which was recorded by Garry Mills , which begins "I was to meet my baby", and then by The Marcels with the refrain "I saw those ...
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing The Cat Who Went to Heaven as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."
Queen Elizabeth II. Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss is looking back on her last memory with the late Queen Elizabeth II.. Truss, 48, was the last of the 15 prime ministers who served during ...
– As Princess Elizabeth on her 21st birthday in South Africa. “My own name, Elizabeth, of course.” – Asked by her private secretary what she wanted to be called after she became Queen.
Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, and Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. Sarah Ferguson , Duchess of York, revealed the final conversation she ever had with Queen Elizabeth II before the monarch's death ...