Smile – It’s Friday!
Happy Friday, everybody!
Have a terrific weekend.
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19th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1978 Garfield (cartoon cat)
Died:
1993 William Golding (author – Lord of the Flies)
On This Day:
London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) founded by Robert Peel
Have a great Friday, 19th June
Under The Round Tower
‘ALTHOUGH I’d lie lapped up in linen
A deal I’d sweat and little earn
If I should live as live the neighbours,’
Cried the beggar, Billy Byrne;
‘Stretch bones till the daylight come
On great-grandfather’s battered tomb.’
Upon a grey old battered tombstone
In Glendalough beside the stream
Where the O’Byrnes and Byrnes are buried,
He stretched his bones and fell in a dream
Of sun and moon that a good hour
Bellowed and pranced in the round tower;
Of golden king and Silver lady,
Bellowing up and bellowing round,
Till toes mastered a sweet measure,
Mouth mastered a sweet sound,
Prancing round and prancing up
Until they pranced upon the top.
That golden king and that wild lady
Sang till stars began to fade,
Hands gripped in hands, toes close together,
Hair spread on the wind they made;
That lady and that golden king
Could like a brace of blackbirds sing.
‘It’s certain that my luck is broken,’
That rambling jailbird Billy said;
‘Before nightfall I’ll pick a pocket
And snug it in a feather bed.
I cannot find the peace of home
On great-grandfather’s battered tomb.’
– William Yates
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18th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1942 Paul McCartney
Died:
1936 Maxim Gorky (Russian writer and playwright)
On This Day:
1815 Battle of Waterloo (Napoleon defeated by the Duke of Wellington)
Have a good Thursday, 18th June
To A Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No
Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the shaking tree
As though I’d a gun
To strike you dead?
When all I would do
Is to scratch your head
And let you go.
– William Yates
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17th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1703 John Wesley (co-founder of the Methodist church)
Died:
1961 Jeff Chandler (actor)
On This Day:
1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City
Have a good Wednesday, 17th June
The Shadowy Waters
I walked among the seven woods of Coole:
Shan-walla, where a willow-hordered pond
Gathers the wild duck from the winter dawn;
Shady Kyle-dortha; sunnier Kyle-na-no,
Where many hundred squirrels are as happy
As though they had been hidden hy green houghs
Where old age cannot find them; Paire-na-lee,
Where hazel and ash and privet hlind the paths:
Dim Pairc-na-carraig, where the wild bees fling
Their sudden fragrances on the green air;
Dim Pairc-na-tarav, where enchanted eyes
Have seen immortal, mild, proud shadows walk;
Dim Inchy wood, that hides badger and fox
And marten-cat, and borders that old wood
Wise Buddy Early called the wicked wood:
Seven odours, seven murmurs, seven woods.
I had not eyes like those enchanted eyes,
Yet dreamed that beings happier than men
Moved round me in the shadows, and at night
My dreams were clown hy voices and by fires;
And the images I have woven in this story
Of Forgael and Dectora and the empty waters
Moved round me in the voices and the fires,
And more I may not write of, for they that cleave
The waters of sleep can make a chattering tongue
Heavy like stone, their wisdom being half silence.
How shall I name you, immortal, mild, proud shadows?
I only know that all we know comes from you,
And that you come from Eden on flying feet.
Is Eden far away, or do you hide
From human thought, as hares and mice and coneys
That run before the reaping-hook and lie
In the last ridge of the barley? Do our woods
And winds and ponds cover more quiet woods,
More shining winds, more star-glimmering ponds?
Is Eden out of time and out of space?
And do you gather about us when pale light
Shining on water and fallen among leaves,
And winds blowing from flowers, and whirr of feathers
And the green quiet, have uplifted the heart?
I have made this poem for you, that men may read it
Before they read of Forgael and Dectora,
As men in the old times, before the harps began,
Poured out wine for the high invisible ones.
– William Yates
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16th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1895 Stan Laurel (comedian, and part of Laurel and Hardy duo)
Died:
1959 George Reeves (Superman)
On This Day:
1880 The forming of the Salvation Army
have a good Tuesday, 16th June
The Ragged Wood
O Hurry where by water among the trees
The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh,
When they have but looked upon their images —
Would none had ever loved but you and I!
Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoed
Pale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky,
When the sun looked out of his golden hood? —
O that none ever loved but you and I!
O hurty to the ragged wood, for there
I will drive all those lovers out and cry —
O my share of the world, O yellow hair!
No one has ever loved but you and I.
– William Yates
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15th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1969 Ice Cube (rap singer)
Died:
1996 Ella Fitzgerald (singer)
On This Day:
1215 Magna Carta signed by King John (this 800 year old document signifies the start of democracy and the beginning of recognition of human rights in England)
Have a good Monday, 15th June!
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