J. Press SS24
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THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins". - And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."
May I suggest a bloke for the next Brains and Beauty slot; Robert Frost, Red Ed, Brad Pitt? Surely any one of these excellent all-performing, all-singing, all damned good looking candidates has all that it takes to make it (here)?
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A BIRTHDAY
by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Y heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a daïs of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
Yo! You may suggest anything that you like but whose blog is this, anyway? Thanks for the additional poem.
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