Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke and it came out to hear.

Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke and it came out to hear.

I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of read more

I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of death.

Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings?

Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings?

Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]

Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]

Went in at the one eare and out at the other.

Went in at the one eare and out at the other.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.