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Thursday, April 2, 2020

A Break For Beauty

(For politics, please scroll down. New post published on April 2)

Rainbow here in Northern Virginia on April 1. Photo courtesy of NextDoor Online Neighborhood:

12 comments:

  1. Moon River, wider than a mile
    ___ I'm crossing you in style some day.
    You dream maker, your heartbreaker,
    ___ Wherever you're going you're going my way.

    Two drifters off to see the world
    ___ There's such a ot of world to see
    We're after the same Rainbow's End
    ___ waitin' round the bend,

    ______ my Huckleberry Friend
    Moon River –– and me."


    ~ Henry Mancini - from Breakfast at Tiffanies

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    1. I'd forgotten about that line in "Moon River"! Thanks for the reminder.

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  2. LOOK to the RAINBOW

    On the day I was born,
    Said my father, said he.
    I've an an elegant legacy
    Waitin' for ye,
    'Tis a rhyme for your lips
    And a song for your heart,
    To sing it whenever
    The world falls apart.

    Look, look
    Look to the rainbow.
    Follow it over the hill
    And the stream.
    Look, look
    Look to the rainbow.
    Follow the fellow
    Who follows a dream.

    Follow the fellow,
    Follow the fellow,
    Follow the fellow
    Who follows a dream.

    'Twas a sumptuous gift
    To bequeath to a child.
    Oh the lure of that song
    Kept her feet funnin' wild.
    For you never grow old
    And you never stand still,
    With whippoorwills singin'
    Beyond the next hill.

    Look, look
    Look to the rainbow.
    Follow it over the hill
    And the stream.
    Look, look
    Look to the rainbow.
    Follow the fellow
    Who follows a dream.

    Follow the fellow,
    Follow the fellow,
    Follow the fellow
    Who follows a dream.


    ~ R.R. Bennet & D. Walker
    Finian's Rainbow (1947)

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  3. My heart leaps up when I behold
    A rainbow in the sky:
    So was it when my life began;
    So is it now I am a man;
    So be it when I shall grow old,
    Or let me die!
    The Child is father of the Man;
    And I could wish my days to be
    Bound each to each by natural piety.


    ~William Wordsworth (1770-185o)

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  4. The rainbow never tells me
    That gust and storm are by,
    Yet is she more convincing
    Than Philosophy.

    My flowers turn from Forums—
    Yet eloquent declare
    What Cato couldn’t prove me
    Except the birds were here!


    ~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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  5. On this long storm the Rainbow rose —
    On this late Morn —t he Sun —
    The clouds —l ike listless Elephants —
    Horizons — straggled down —

    The Birds rose smiling, in their nests —
    The gales — indeed — were done —
    Alas, how heedless were the eyes —
    On whom the summer shone!

    The quiet nonchalance of death —
    No Daybreak — can bestir —
    The slow — Archangel's syllables
    Must awaken her!


    ~ Emly Dickinson (1830-1886

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  6. It's disgusting how the left has co-opted the rainbow.
    I've no doubt their morality brought on the first rainbow.

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    1. That doesn't have to be if you don't LET them mar your love for and understanding of God's truth, Ed.

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  7. ____ The Arc in the Sky _____

    Although there is no pot of gold
    There's something better far ––
    A Loveliness that won't grow old ––
    That can't be bought or sold ––
    As bright as any star.

    An evanescent glimpse of Beauty
    Living on as glowing Heart's Desire
    Transforming every dun gray Duty
    Into a Radiance forever kind
    A priceless Treasure to which most are blind.
    Yet kindling for the Few heartwarming fire.


    ~ Abner Dilys Arbogaast



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  8. ____ OVER the RAINBOW ____

    When all the world is a hopeless jumble,
    And the raindrops tumble all around,
    Heaven opens a magic lane,,
    When all the clouds darken up the skyway
    There's a rainbow highway to be found,
    Leading from your window pane.
    To a place behind the sun, just a step beyond the rain;

    Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,
    There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby,
    Somewhere over the rainbow skys are blue,
    And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

    Someday I'll wish upon a star
    And wake up where the clouds are far behind me,
    Where troubles melt like lemon drops
    Away above the chimney tops,
    That's where you'll find me.

    Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly
    Birds fly over the rainbow,
    Why then oh why can't I?

    If happy little bluebirds fly
    Beyond the rainbow,
    Why oh why can't I?


    ~ Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg, Music: Harold Arlen

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