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Go, Soul, the body’s guest,
Upon a thankless errand;
Fear not to touch the best;
The truth shall be thy warrant:
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.
Say to the court, it glows
And shines like rotten wood;
Say to the church, it shows
What’s good, and doth no good:
If church and court reply,
Then give them both the lie.Tell potentates, they live
Acting by others’ action;
Not loved unless they give,
Not strong but by a faction.
If potentates reply,
Give potentates the lie.Tell men of high condition,
That manage the estate,
Their purpose is ambition,
Their practice only hate:
And if they once reply,
Then give them all the lie.Tell them that brave it most,
They beg for more by spending,
Who, in their greatest cost,
Seek nothing but commending.
And if they make reply,
Then give them all the lie.Tell zeal it wants devotion;
Tell love it is but lust;
Tell time it is but motion;
Tell flesh it is but dust:
And wish them not reply,
For thou must give the lie.Tell age it daily wasteth;
Tell honour how it alters;
Tell beauty how she blasteth;
Tell favour how it falters:
And as they shall reply,
Give every one the lie.Tell wit how much it wrangles
In tickle points of niceness;
Tell wisdom she entangles
Herself in overwiseness:
And when they do reply,
Straight give them both the lie.Tell physic of her boldness;
Tell skill it is pretension;
Tell charity of coldness;
Tell law it is contention:
And as they do reply,
So give them still the lie.Tell fortune of her blindness;
Tell nature of decay;
Tell friendship of unkindness;
Tell justice of delay:
And if they will reply,
Then give them all the lie.Tell arts they have no soundness,
But vary by esteeming;
Tell schools they want profoundness,
And stand too much on seeming:
If arts and schools reply,
Give arts and schools the lie.Tell faith it’s fled the city;
Tell how the country erreth;
Tell manhood shakes off pity
And virtue least preferreth:
And if they do reply,
Spare not to give the lie.So when thou hast, as I
Commanded thee, done blabbing–
Although to give the lie
Deserves no less than stabbing–
Stab at thee he that will,
No stab the soul can kill.Can we make an October Cobbler please.. as there seems to be a lot of it about.
actually, would anyone like some blackberries with their ginger beer? I went picking today and have a glut.
Ok, so when did those particular kind of dolls get linked with the Klu Klux Klan? That little bit of history escaped me.
The doll is just that, a doll that was popular 100 years ago. It is the way people more recently abbreviated the name of it that has become offensive and an insult.
And… yes please, lashings of ginger beer to go with my rosey cheeks.
Its strange how times change isn’t it. Debussy wrote it in the early 1900’s for children. It was in the Associated Board exams until relatively recently.
I guess it was dropped around the same time Enid Blyton was re-written to make it politically correct.
Its a good tune though!
P.S. The sheet has heeet the fan :)
@toybulldog wrote:
@sir Actor wrote:
I love the name mimsey.
I just wanna grab a bottle of ginger beer and a picnic rug and wander off into the countryside.
There’ll be ham and cream cakes galore.
Love ya mims. xI remember that godawful mims person posting something about a bracing walk, and then Enid Blyton got mixed up in it somewhere.
Although you were right to call her a racist at the time, I’m glad that your feelings have now changed.
(goes off to find that copy of agatha christie’s “Ten Little Niggers”…..)
Would either of you like a Noddy egg?
With toast cut up into soldiers for dipping?Oh well……. *wanders off whistling the Golliwog’s Cakewalk by Debussy*
Yes.. what was it with last week….. ah well, its done with now, not completely over in the work sense as got to get through till thursday without misshap, but broken the back of the worst of it all.
I am going to scatter petals, and wade through leaves, and if I come across a tree I fancy, I might hug it.
No idle hands there then…..lots of busy little fingers made that lot! Not sure what the cow was doing, never seen one quite that big!
Love the link toy…..that war should have been the last!
