Category: Art & Literature
A tribute to the Horse
Thanks Sam…
Where in this world can man find nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy,
Or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is laced with muscle,
And strength by gentleness confined.
He serves without servility;
He has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful,
Nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick,
Nothing more patient.
England’s past has been borne on his back.
All our histories are his history.
We are his heirs, he our inheritance.
“The Horse”
by Robert Duncan
England Awake!
A beautiful great lady, past her prime,
Behold her dreaming in her easy chair;
Gray robed, and veiled; in laces old and rare,
Her smiling eyes see but the vanished time,
Of splendid prowess, and of deeds sublime.
Self satisfied she sits, all unaware
That peace has flown before encroaching care,
And through her halls stalks hunger, linked with crime.
England, awake! from dreams of what has been,
Look on what is, and put the past away.
Speak to your sons, until they understand.
England, awake! for dreaming now is sin;
In all your ancient wisdom, rise today,
And save the glory of your menaced land.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1917.
London From the Sky at Night
Looking at these awesome pictures nobody would ever guess how mush of a shit hole many parts of London have become.
Check out all the pics here.
