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Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
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Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
The charm dissolves apace;
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their read more
The charm dissolves apace;
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is read more
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.