TWO JAPANESE PAINTINGS
by Father and Son
Pine Trees
c1595
Left panel of 6 fold screen ink on paper
156.8 cm x 356 cm
Hasegawa Tohaku
1539-1610
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Cherry Tree
1592
Colour painting on gold-foil paper
Hasegawa Kyuzo
1568-93
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A BOY'S SONG
James Hogg 1770-1835
Cherry Tree
1592
Colour painting on gold-foil paper
Hasegawa Kyuzo
1568-93
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A BOY'S SONG
James Hogg 1770-1835
"The Ettrick Shepherd"
Where the pools are bright and deep,
Where the grey trout lies asleep,
Up the river and over the lea,
That's the way for Billy and me.
Where the blackbird sings the latest,
Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest,
Where the nestlings chirp and flee,
That's the way for Billy and me.
Where the mowers mow the cleanest,
Where the hay lies thick and greenest,
There to track the homeward bee,
That's the way for Billy and me.
Where the hazel bank is steepest,
Where the shadow falls the deepest,
Where the clustering nuts fall free,
That's the way for Billy and me.
Why the boys should drive away
Little sweet maidens from the play,
Or love to banter and fight so well,
That's the thing I never could tell.
But this I know, I love to play
Through the meadow, among the hay;
Up the water and over the lea,
That's the way for Billy and me.
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Finnich Glen, Killearn
Scotland
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THE DOLLS
Whenever you dress me dolls, mammy,
Why do you dress them so,
And make them gallant soldiers,
When never a one I know;
And not as gentle ladies
With frills and frocks and curls,
As people dress the dollies
Of other little girls?"
Ah - why did she not answer:-
"Because your mammy's heed
Is always gallant soldiers,
As well may be, indeed.
One of them was your daddy,
His name I must not tell;
He's not the dad who lives here,
But one I love too well."
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THE OPPORTUNITY
Forty springs back, I recall,
We met at this phase of the Maytime:
We might have clung close through all,
But we parted when died that daytime.
We parted with smallest regret;
Perhaps should have cared but slightly,
Just then, if we never had met:
Strange, strange that we lived so lightly!
Had we mused a little space
At that critical date in the Maytime,
One life had been ours, one place,
Perhaps, till our long cold daytime.
- This is a bitter thing
For thee, O man: what ails it?
The tide of chance may bring
Its offer; but nought avails it!
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IT NEVER LOOKS LIKE SUMMER
"It never looks like summer here
On Beeny by the sea."
But though she saw its look as drear,
Summer it seemed to me.
It never looks like summer now
Whatever weather's there;
But ah, it cannot anyhow,
On Beeny or elsewhere!
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GREAT WHITE HERONS
1923
Frank Weston Benson
1862-1951
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DREAMS
Langston Hughes 1902-67
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
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QUOTES FROM THE WISE AND THE WITTY
Woodrow Wilson - Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together
Anon - Only those who do nothing make no mistakes
Bob Hope - I've seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful
Spike Milligan - Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy
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NEXT POST FRIDAY 8th MARCH
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THREE POEMS BY THOMAS HARDY
THE DOLLS
Whenever you dress me dolls, mammy,
Why do you dress them so,
And make them gallant soldiers,
When never a one I know;
And not as gentle ladies
With frills and frocks and curls,
As people dress the dollies
Of other little girls?"
Ah - why did she not answer:-
"Because your mammy's heed
Is always gallant soldiers,
As well may be, indeed.
One of them was your daddy,
His name I must not tell;
He's not the dad who lives here,
But one I love too well."
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THE OPPORTUNITY
Forty springs back, I recall,
We met at this phase of the Maytime:
We might have clung close through all,
But we parted when died that daytime.
We parted with smallest regret;
Perhaps should have cared but slightly,
Just then, if we never had met:
Strange, strange that we lived so lightly!
Had we mused a little space
At that critical date in the Maytime,
One life had been ours, one place,
Perhaps, till our long cold daytime.
- This is a bitter thing
For thee, O man: what ails it?
The tide of chance may bring
Its offer; but nought avails it!
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IT NEVER LOOKS LIKE SUMMER
"It never looks like summer here
On Beeny by the sea."
But though she saw its look as drear,
Summer it seemed to me.
It never looks like summer now
Whatever weather's there;
But ah, it cannot anyhow,
On Beeny or elsewhere!
-o0o-
GREAT WHITE HERONS
1923
Frank Weston Benson
1862-1951
-o0o-
DREAMS
Langston Hughes 1902-67
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
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QUOTES FROM THE WISE AND THE WITTY
Woodrow Wilson - Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together
Anon - Only those who do nothing make no mistakes
Bob Hope - I've seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful
Spike Milligan - Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy
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NEXT POST FRIDAY 8th MARCH
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