When first that canine Ziggy came to wreck my sweet content I felt assured that his attacks I’d slyly circumvent, For he was so unsubtle, he was hardly worth a scoff – But though I humbled him repeatedly, he just would not lay off. When first he came into my home, he was easily evaded […]
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On a walk again I just can’t wait to get on a walk again And smell some bushes for the news of all my friends And I can’t wait to get on a walk again On a walk again I just can’t wait to get on a walk again Kick up some dirt to leave
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Just a lazy Ziggy, got an old branch to chew Wadin in the creek, nothin better to do Dragonflies driftin over sparklin waves Catfish lyin doggo in their bankside caves Just a lazy Ziggy in the summertime You can wade in with me if you don’t mind the slime Tadpoles lip my toes, horseflies bug
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“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the
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The beautiful things view the projection without knowing, without thinking, perched on a rocky ledge at sunset, watching the valley turn to gold.
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Alec Bobedash, the great Nagurski’sblocking guard, stands at the sternbent to raise the outboard motorover the sandy bottom ferns.The channel widens, bottom fallsaway. In northern morning hazethe slow prow slides risingonto Shishebogema, lake of many bays.Then the long run over the deepcenter, the outboard motor cut,the shore pines faint through the mist,Bobedash testing the anchor
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