My music is nice to listen to on a rainy day like this one
Mmm.. Just arrived home from Plaza Singapura after meeting with Wanyi to buy presents for Jon and for others.. I had an enjoyable chat with her, as well as a meal which included a hotdog with tantalizing, wasabi-spicy mustard, a wonderful MOS milkshake, and one of Wanyi's cookies. You should sell those, lady. haha...
Looks like Jon has joined the ranks of those people who will be flying off to other countries to study... It's true that I've fallen out of contact with him since secondary school days, but he's definitely yet another person who will be missed. Haha.. Well all the best to him, I'll be attending the birthday party on saturday... Should be a good time.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.
He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar’s Dog and Widow’s Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song
Poison gets from Slander’s tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy’s Foot.
A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro’ the World we safely go.
Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.
-William Blake Shakespeare, Auguries of Innocence
I'm not really sure what the meaning of the first paragraph (stanza?) is... That all these small things are precious, or that they reflect the nature of bigger things? Can anybody clarify?
Looks like Jon has joined the ranks of those people who will be flying off to other countries to study... It's true that I've fallen out of contact with him since secondary school days, but he's definitely yet another person who will be missed. Haha.. Well all the best to him, I'll be attending the birthday party on saturday... Should be a good time.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.
He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar’s Dog and Widow’s Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song
Poison gets from Slander’s tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy’s Foot.
A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro’ the World we safely go.
Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.
-William Blake Shakespeare, Auguries of Innocence
I'm not really sure what the meaning of the first paragraph (stanza?) is... That all these small things are precious, or that they reflect the nature of bigger things? Can anybody clarify?
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