Thursday, May 28, 2009

Thought For The Day

A clear conscience is a good pillow.

- American Proverb -

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Poem For The Day

Red Sox, Patriots, BC Hockey,
Soccer, football, NASCAR and others
Too great to number.

Budweiser, Cape Cod Chips,
Nachos, Pepto, oh I can't wait
For rest and for slumber.

- R. Foss -

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Hymm

By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled.
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

The fog long since in silence slept,
Alike the conquerer silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept,
Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare,
The shaft we raise to them and thee.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Sung at the completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Thought For The Day

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

- Horace Greeley -