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288 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS

Nonsense

FLATTEB myself that we are almost the only people
who understand nonsense. Hazlitt on the English

Every Man Decideth

r-po every man there openeth
JL A high way and a low,
And every man deeideth
The way his soul shall go.

John Oxenham

The Beggar and the Prince

T WOULD recommend every young man to take to heart the following
JL lines. There are

two points in the adventure of the diver :
One when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge,
One when, a prince, he rises with his pearl.

- Sir Ernest Shackleton

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Our Paradise

EMORY is the only Paradise from which we cannot be
turned out. Jean Paul Eichter

The Adventure of Being Alive

MERELY to be alive is adventure enough in a world like this, so
erratic and disjoined ; so lovely and so odd, and mysterious
and profound. It is, at any rate, a pity to remain in it half-dead.

Walter de la Mare

Down to Kew in Lilac Time

Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time ;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London)
And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland |
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London).

Alfred Noyes

OUT Little Maid

HERE lies, but seven years old, our little maid,
Once of the darkness, oh, so sore afraid I
Light of the World, remember that small fear,
And when not moon nor stars do shine, draw near.

Epitaph on a little child, by Walter de la Mare

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Upstairs
CAME upstairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve