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When first, descending from the moorlands,
I saw the Stream of Yarrow glide
Along a bare and open valley,
The Ettrick Shepherd was my guide.

When last along its banks I wandered,
Through groves that had begun to shed
Their golden leaves upon the pathways,
My steps the Border-minstrel led.

The mighty Minstrel breathes no longer,
’Mid mouldering ruins low he lies;
And death upon the braes of Yarrow,
Has closed the Shepherd-poet’s eyes:

Nor has the rolling year twice measured,
From sign to sign, its stedfast course,
Since every mortal power of Coleridge
Was frozen at its marvellous source;

The rapt One, of the godlike forehead,
The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:
And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle,
Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits,
Or waves that own no curbing hand,
How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!

Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber
Were earlier raised, remain to hear
A timid voice, that asks in whispers,
“Who next will drop and disappear?”

Our haughty life is crowned with darkness,
Like London with its own black wreath,
On which with thee, O Crabbe! forth-looking,
I gazed from Hampstead’s breezy heath.

As if but yesterday departed,
Thou too art gone before; but why,
O’er ripe fruit, seasonably gathered,
Should frail survivors heave a sigh?

Mourn rather for that holy Spirit,
Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep;
For Her who, ere her summer faded,
Has sunk into a breathless sleep.

No more of old romantic sorrows,
For slaughtered Youth or love-lorn Maid!
With sharper grief is Yarrow smitten,
And Ettrick mourns with her their Poet dead.
Beat the rhythm
empty hand,
Iron cast chains
rattles command.

Ol' Boss Hogg,
baton raised
Self righteous fool
has need of praise.

In order that
he gain acclaim,
thinks with hate,
acts with shame.

Human beings,
commodity,
ships hold stacked
with those once free.

Bodies piled
upon high
you will not see
the strong ones die.

Scars embedded
on their backs
chained and shackled
to the racks.

We deal in branded
breathing stock,
Unload black vassal
from our docks.

Beat the rhythm
empty hands.
Iron cast chains
in far off lands.

We keep our skivvy,
wired hair blacks.
We work them hard,
we score their backs.

They do for us,
they work the field.
Grow the cotton,
pick the yield.

Keep the body,
take the mind.
Labour whatever's
left behind.

And if demeanour
does ever flinch.
We'll introduce you
Willie Lynch.

Beat the rhythm.
Empty hands
Iron cast chains.
Unfair demands.

Beat the rhythm,
shackled feet.
We take their worst
but can't be beat.
Anybody know who Willie Lynch was? Anybody? Raise your hand. No one? He was a vicious slave owner in the West Indies. The slave-masters in the colony of Virginia were having trouble controlling their slaves, so they sent for Mr. Lynch to teach them his methods. The word "lynching" came from his last name. His methods were very simple, but they were diabolical. Keep the slave physically strong but psychologically weak and dependent on the slave master. Keep the body, take the mind.  (Melvin B Tolson)

19th  July 2015
© Copyright Christopher K Bayliss 2014
judy smith Jun 2015
A Scots fashion student has been snapped up by design house Calvin Klein after impressing them with his stylish menswear collection.

The Glasgow School of Art already counts leading fashion designers Louise Gray, Pam Hogg and Jonathan Saunders amongst its celebrated former-students.

Now final year fashion design student Jonathan Douglas, 24, from Ballater, has been added to this illustrious list after being plucked by the US clothing company following an interview with them in January.

Jonathan who showcased his designs alongside ten other students from his course said: “I was told by email that after I graduate I will relocate to Amsterdam to work for Tommy Hilfiger Calvin Klein as part of their first ever European graduate creative programme. I was really excited but I’ve just tried to remain calm and continue to work on things for the show today.”

Jonathan can’t wait to live in Amsterdam to spend ten months with each label, then look at the business side of things.

He said: “My aim was to work for a global brand that had a truly global reach because as a designer it will push me to learn about fashion as a global industry. Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein have always been labels with a true heritage that I’ve admired and they always try to innovate as well.”

He added: “The beauty about fashion is that you can travel, there are no boundaries and there are different people with different cultures - and fashion translates across that.”

Jonathan, who has a business degree, and has interned for Victoria Beckham, Carolina Herrera and Lacoste, was also awarded a schools and colleges British Fashion Council and Top Man award earlier this year.

He said of his fashion: “It’s quite creative but still staying within menswear silhouettes.

“It’s a contemporary menswear collection, forward thinking with clean line silhouettes contrasting with crazy textures. I’ve used foiling, hand painting with silicon paint and collaborated with print design too. It’s quite monochromatic. I think we are encouraged here to push the boundaries of our designs and think outside the box a bit because we don’t want to create something that has been produced before.”

Amongst his more adventurous pieces, Jonathan has designed a see through lightweight top with silicon painted shorts.

But despite his new job with a major label Jonathan isn’t planning to get his designs places on the latest celebrities.

He explained: “I’m not a big celeb fan. It’s a great way to promote fashion but it’s not my main focus.”Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/red-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/white-formal-dresses
David W Clare Jan 2015
The *******

The creepy old fat man from Sweden
Cheatin' and scams his partners
Farting old ******* rat dog
Harbors innocent little girls
Like a **** hogg
Looks just like a 300 pound rat
Fat *** clown pervert
We are all to blame for that?
For the criminally insane
Lame brain
Bring back the nice guillotine
Chop off the **** of the mean old man who ruins the preteen!
Steals money then gets killed
The beat goes on... Beat in his fat head like a drum
Dumb old creepy ****
Worthless gimp
His days are numbered
Price on his head
Uses us all takes our bread!
But soon he is flat dead!

Dedicated to Bjorn Henry Jonasson
From Sweden the worst pervert I ever met, I bet he got killed in Thailand!
Beware of perverts from Sweden!
Johnsdavidburg Apr 2018
I’m not a bit whiny!
She’s just a big bully.
So let’s ruin her career!
Fill her heart up with fear!
Ha... Now who’s the bully?
*****!
Oh, ****
wordvango Nov 2014
A name so colors one, is anyone satisfied with
a nomenclature such as Myrtle or Prudence or
a name that shouts out a particular feature:
like Hogg, or ****.
Who the hell is as lucky as Rene Descartes
or 'scuse me , my favorite, Blaise
Pascal. Wow. I wanna name me next newborn
Papa, see what becomes
do his pals
make fun.
Or, will he or she
suffer
under letters small
and
significant.
David W Clare Jan 2015
Big mouth bragging all day
Ten million dollars to feed his fat ugly cow **** face upright Hogg wife

Ten trash cans of splat spoiled rotten punk brats eat up all that crap

Septic tank explodes **** gas destroys the ozone layer caked with clouds determined to rain down manure

Farting old braggard buys him a sports car then crashes in the river while boasting about himself humpty dumpty had a great fall

The affluent wall is the shortest of all...



Dedicated to parsimonious eaters of broken meats...

Dogs have no money they no want no pockets only police dogs who suffer from beatings and torture sniffing out dope dealers who eventually burn in hell...
Opinions vary...
SHAKESPEARE.
À lui la baguette magique
Le pouvoir de tout enchaîner ;
Il riva la Nature aux plis de sa tunique,
Et la Création a su le couronner.

MILTON.
Son esprit était un pactole
Dont les flots roulaient de l'or pur,
Un temple à la vertu dont la vaste coupole
Se perdait dans les cieux au milieu de l'azur.

THOMPSON.
Après le jour la nuit obscure,
Après les saisons les saisons,
Ses chants qui sont gravés au sein de la nature
Iront de l'avenir dorer les horizons.

GRAY.
D'un vol grandiose il s'élève,
La foudre il la brave de l'œil,
Le nuage orageux il le passe, puis s'enlève
Lumineuse trainée au sein de son orgueil.

BURNS.
De la lyre de sa patrie
Il fit vibrer les plus doux sons,
Et son âme de feu, céleste rêverie
Se fondit dans des flots d'admirables chansons.

SOUTHEY.
Où règne la nécromancie
Dans les pays orientaux,
Il aimait promener sa riche fantaisie,
Son esprit à cheval sur les vieux fabliaux.

COLERIDGE.
Par le charme de sa magie
Au clair de la lune le soir
Il évoquait le preux, et du preux la vigie,
La superstition, hôte du vieux manoir.

WORDSWORTH.
Au livre de philosophie
Il suspendit sa harpe un jour,
Là, placé près des lacs, il chante, il magnifie
Dans ses paisibles vers la nature et l'amour.

CAMPBELL.
Enfant gâté de la nature
L'art polit son vers enchanteur,
Il sut pincer sa lyre et gracieuse et pure,
Pour amuser l'esprit, et réchauffer le cœur.

SCOTT.
Il chante, et voyez ! là s'élance
Le Roman que l'on croyait mort,
Et la Chevalerie et la Dague et la Lance,
Sortent de l'Arsenal poussés par son ressort !

WILSON.
Son chant comme une hymne sacrée
S'infiltre de l'oreille au cœur ;
On croirait qu'il vous vient de la voûte éthérée
La voix d'un chérubin, d'un saint enfant de chœur.

HEMANS.
Elle ouvre la source des larmes
Et les fait doucement couler,
La pitié dans ses vers elle a les plus doux charmes
Et le lecteur ému s'y laisse affrioler.

SHELLEY.
Un rocher nu, bien solitaire
Au **** par de là l'océan,
Crévassé par le choc des volcans, du tonnerre,
Voilà quel fut Shelley, l'audacieux Titan !

HOGG.
Vêtu d'un rayon de lumière
Qu'il sut voler à l'arc-en-ciel,
Il voit fée et lutin danser dans la clairière,
Et faire le sabbat **** de tout œil mortel.

BYRON.
La tête ceinte de nuages,
Ses pieds étaient jonchés de fleurs,
L'ivresse et la gaité, le calme et les orages
Trouvent en ses beaux vers un écho dans les cœurs.

MOORE.
Couronné de vertes louanges
Et pour chaque œuvre tour à tour,
Moore dans les bosquets se plait avec les anges
À chanter les plaisirs de son Dieu... de l'Amour !
Randy Johnson Apr 2015
When you were dead in Firecreek, it looked real.
That was brilliant acting and it took a lot of skill.
But sadly, now you're also dead in real life.
It has devastated your kids and your wife.

You were rich and famous but it didn't make you become a snob.
Everything you touched turned to gold, you always did a good job.
You were Jim Lindsey, Jeff Myrtlebank and Rosco Coltrane too.
Now you're in Heaven with Uncle Jesse, Boss Hogg and Lulu.
Dedicated to James Best (1926-2015) who died on April 6, 2015.
David W Clare Feb 2015
Never let the left hand see what the right hand is doing
The best advice for the ruined soul
Never trust anyone or you will get ripped off
The only true partner is you
Red White and blue fool
Go vote for Bush
He stole from you at your factory job
Politricks pay them taxes punch that time clock eat broken meats get your feet massaged...
School is not the answer
Mother nature is the only escape
Civilization is a joke
Technology goes up in smoke
Eat drink then get married to a ***** Hogg who could not care less
Man's quest for richess goes to the *******
Tract home trailer house chippie ***** your best friend while you slave to feed her cheese and wine dine her *** then buy her a ring of gold then grow old alone like a miserable **** face *******
Disaster strikes twice
Runaway to the Asian islands
Why work for the boss
You are the boss of you
Buy a car go nowhere get stuck in traffic
Road rage is your derision
Buy a gun shoot that *******
I was here first cries the loon
We all will die soon
David W Clare Jan 2015
The greed stricken neandrarthal
Will steal from you then try to **** you
For your very last dime
Crime is on the rise
your best friend will love on your wife
Grab your wallet then go on a shopping spree... Weeeee!
Pill popping idiots
With hidden agenda
The shadow knows old radio shows
What about me me me ?
Says the doped out *****
Turning tricks shooting up smack
Pawn shop maggots take all you gots Jack!
Dog eat Hogg
Bogs down your old hometown
Some hide away eating bark off a tree
That's the way of parsimony...

D. Clare
Greedy pigs
Randy Johnson Sep 2018
Because of a man's death, millions have been hurt.
He was a fantastic actor, and his name was Burt.
He starred as the Bandit twice, and as Stroker Ace.
His death is something that fans don't want to face.
Burt starred as Boss Hogg back in 2005.
Many will mourn because he didn't survive.
He was very lucky because for a while, he was married to Loni Anderson.
When people heard about his death, they were both saddened and stunned.
People are crying because of the ordeal they're going through.
Sadly, the world has lost Burt Reynolds at the age of eighty-two.
Dedicated to Burt Reynolds (1936-2018) who died on September 6, 2018.
anthony Brady Apr 2018
I have tried to imagine my world without you:
summer swarming bees, distant Cotswold peaks
hidden in snow. The beauty of autumn mornings
along Blaisdon's remembered country roads;
a sunlit river Severn beyond Westbury, the
whirr of pheasants at spring midday and
the calling of owls towards midnight.

Now I know that none of it is the same
without you. But most of all I will never
forget your smile, your eyes your
gentleness and giving, your loyalty
and caring for old friends: *** Carter,
Frank and Elsie Hogg, in particular.
The memories we treasured, the
enjoyments we shared.

The love is forever there
despite time or distance -
clarified through tears.
So today I celebrate that
you existed; thanking
all of life for your life,
expressing my deepest
gratitude that out of
millions of people
and possibilities
our lives were destined
to be intermingled.

As in sorrow,  I mourn your passing,
I know clearly and forever my world
can never be the same: Without You.

TOBIAS

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