posted by Lydia
Poetry from Treasure Island:
If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold.
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
-So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studios youth one no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of [...]

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I don’t know history. At least, not as well as I should. As I read through Psalms, I have to conclude that we let ourselves off the hook far too easily. If we know the names and some of the major accomplishments of the founding fathers of our nations; if we know [...]

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