Sonnet 54 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 54

by William Shakespeare

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

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 “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.” ― William Shakespeare ―

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 “There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle ―

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 “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter ―

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 "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty." — Haniel Long – 

Blaze Finds the Trail

 

Title: Blaze Finds the Trail

Author and Illustrator: C. W. Anderson

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Literature

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    Billy and Blaze Are Lost

    Billy and his pony Blaze love to explore the forest. So one day they set out on an old woodland road that is new to them. They have a wonderful ride, but their adventures soon lead them off the trail and deep into the woods. Before they know it, the sky grows dark with a coming storm, and Billy can't find the way out of the woods. Can Blaze find the trail and get them safely home again?

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 "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." — Desmond Tutu —