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I love it! 6th January 2017, 6:30 a.m.

THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI as read by the poet himself, T.S. Elliot.   Click on this to hear T.S.E's reading. https://youtu.be/BCVnuEWXQcg Here is the text. The Journey of the Magi by  T. S. Eliot 'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.' And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and grumbling and running away, and wanting their liquor and women, And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters, And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly And the villages dirty and charging high prices: A hard time we had of it. At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches, With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all...

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”  ―  Samuel Beckett ,  Waiting for Godot

From The Independent Newspaper  (London U.K.) Thanks to Moose Allain for this: "‏Some people like it when an object has displaced just enough water to equal its own original weight. Ah well, whatever floats your boat." To Glenny Rodge ‏for this: COMPUTER: "Enter password." ME: [types "14days"]  COMPUTER: "Your password is two week."  ME: "Uh?"  COMPUTER: "Computer do joke. Computer funny." And to Namey McNamename ‏ for this : "Today seems like a good day to bury bad news. It was a stupid name for a hamster anyway and he died over three weeks ago." Tom Freeman ‏was unimpressed by George Osborne's proposal that students should study maths up to the age of 18: "We already have to study maths up to age 16, and that's quite enough. There's no reason to add an extra three years."  Moose Allain ‏again: "I've just bought my friends a new boiler and complete c...

https://youtu.be/RZgOKLFuDOU Words by Stephen Foster Sung by Thomas Hampson. 1. Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears, While we all sup sorrow with the poor; There's a song that will linger forever in our ears; Oh! Hard times come again no more. Chorus: 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary, Hard Times, hard times, come again no more Many days you have lingered around my cabin door; Oh! Hard times come again no more. 2. While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay, There are frail forms fainting at the door; Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say Oh! Hard times come again no more. Chorus 3. There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away, With a worn heart whose better days are o'er: Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day, Oh! Hard times come again no more. Chorus 4. 'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, 'Tis a wail that ...