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Other things may change us, but we start and end with family
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, read more
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down.
That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light
Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons.
I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the
more.
[Fr., Il n'y a rien de read more
Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the
more.
[Fr., Il n'y a rien de change en France; il n'y a qu'un Francais
de plus.]
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found read more
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it read more
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while read more
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction
