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  2. You Are Old, Father William - Wikipedia

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    Like most poems in Alice, the poem is a parody of a poem then well-known to children, Robert Southey's didactic poem "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them", originally published in 1799. Like the other poems parodied by Lewis Carroll in Alice, this original poem is now mostly forgotten, and only the parody is remembered. [3]

  3. A Shropshire Lad - Wikipedia

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    A Shropshire Lad is a collection of 63 poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896.Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers.

  4. So God Made a Farmer - Wikipedia

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    Paul Harvey ran a similar article in the column "A Point of View" for the Gadsden Times on August 26, 1975. [9] Entitled "What it is to be a farmer", the article did not contain the concept of God creating the farmer seen in his 1978 speech, but he still described the characteristics of a farmer. [9]

  5. Georgics - Wikipedia

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    That Robert Hoblyn had practical experience as a farmer was a qualification he considered the guarantee of his 1825 blank verse translation of the first book of the Georgics; [31] and even in modern times it was made a commendation of Peter Fallon's 2004 version that he is "both a poet and a farmer, uniquely suited to translating this poem". [32]

  6. List of sundial mottos - Wikipedia

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    Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. [1] Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays. [2] Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays. I only tell of sunny hours. I count only sunny hours. The clouds shall pass and the sun will shine on us once more.

  7. Winter Solstice 2024: Don’t worry, the shortest day of the ...

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    As the southern hemisphere celebrates the start of summer, those north of the equator will experience its opposite, the first day of winter. This year, it falls on Saturday 21 December at 9:21am ...

  8. Desiderata - Wikipedia

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    Psychiatrist Merrill Moore distributed more than 1,000 unattributed copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II. [1] After Ehrmann died in 1945, his widow published the work in 1948 in The Poems of Max Ehrmann. The 1948 version was in the form of one long prose paragraph, so earlier and later versions were presumably also in that form.

  9. #1. I'm 70 years old. My precious wife of 41 years died this past January. I still feel like my world exploded. My kids and grandkids stay in touch and try to keep me from being lonely.