Oh, that's a good one, Ebony! That goes right in the list.
Likewise the Basho quote, Rob -- although it turns out I already had the Hammarskjold quote in a part of my master file I'd overlooked, a part that had these in it as well:
"Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides,
and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then for the
second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered
fire."
-- Teihard de Chardin
I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
'Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
-- William Blake, "Jerusalem"
There will be a new city with streets of gold
The young so educated they never grow old
And there will be no death 4 with every breath
A voice of many colors sings a song that's so bold
-- Prince, "7"
I sing the body electric
I glory in the glow of rebirth
Creating my own tomorrow
When I shall embody the earthAnd I look back on Venus
I look back on Mars
And I burn with the fire
Of ten million stars
And in time
And in time
We will all be stars
-- "I Sing The Body Electric", from "Fame"
Like a thief in the night, who can't get enough,
I am willing to fight, 'cause I'm a soldier of love.
Like a shot in the dark when the going gets rough,
It's a state of the heart when you're a soldier of love.
I'm willing to fight.
-- Donny Osmond, "Soldier of Love"
The right thing to guide us
Is right here inside us
No one can divide us
When the light is leading on
But just like a heartbeat
The drumbeat carries on
-- Nickelback, "When We Stand Together"
So keep on kicking
The bomb is ticking
Don't stop, don't be a runaway
Go for the fire
Baby you're tough enough
Just keep on living
And don't start giving
The devil good reason
To get you in the seasons of heartbreak
Baby you're tough enough
-- Vanilla Ninja, "Tough Enough"
Fight for the kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel
-- Manowar, "Call To Arms"
"We come on a ship they call the Mayflower
We come on a ship that sails the Moon
We come in the Age's most uncertain hour
And sing an American Tune"
-- Paul Simon, "An American Tune"
Oh I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
For the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
-- Paul Simon, "Mother and Child Reunion"
"Never give in -- never, never, never, *never*, in nothing great
or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of
honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the
apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." -- Winston
Churchill
Dawn has broke, the time has come,
Move your feet to a marching drum.
We'll win the war and pay the toll,
We'll fight as one in heart and soul.
Midnight mare and blood red roan,
Fight to keep this land your own.
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How many of them can we make die!
-- Heather Alexander, "March of Cambreadth"
Come, lonely hunter, chieftain and king
I will fly like the falcon when I go
Bear me, my brother, under your wing
I will strike, fell like lightning, when I go
I will bellow like the thunder drum,
Invoke the storm of war
A twisting pillar spun of dust and blood
Up from the prairie floor
I will sweep the foe before me
Like a gale out on the snow
And the wind will long recount the story,
Reverence and glory,
When I go.
-- Dave Carter, "When I Go"
There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides, met
To view the last of me, a living frame
For one more picture! in a sheet of flame
I saw them and I knew them all. And yet
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."
-- Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
-- Dylan Thomas
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Likewise the Basho quote, Rob -- although it turns out I already had the Hammarskjold quote in a part of my master file I'd overlooked, a part that had these in it as well:
"Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides,
and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then for the
second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered
fire."
-- Teihard de Chardin
I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
'Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
-- William Blake, "Jerusalem"
There will be a new city with streets of gold
The young so educated they never grow old
And there will be no death 4 with every breath
A voice of many colors sings a song that's so bold
-- Prince, "7"
I sing the body electric
I glory in the glow of rebirth
Creating my own tomorrow
When I shall embody the earthAnd I look back on Venus
I look back on Mars
And I burn with the fire
Of ten million stars
And in time
And in time
We will all be stars
-- "I Sing The Body Electric", from "Fame"
Like a thief in the night, who can't get enough,
I am willing to fight, 'cause I'm a soldier of love.
Like a shot in the dark when the going gets rough,
It's a state of the heart when you're a soldier of love.
I'm willing to fight.
-- Donny Osmond, "Soldier of Love"
The right thing to guide us
Is right here inside us
No one can divide us
When the light is leading on
But just like a heartbeat
The drumbeat carries on
-- Nickelback, "When We Stand Together"
So keep on kicking
The bomb is ticking
Don't stop, don't be a runaway
Go for the fire
Baby you're tough enough
Just keep on living
And don't start giving
The devil good reason
To get you in the seasons of heartbreak
Baby you're tough enough
-- Vanilla Ninja, "Tough Enough"
Fight for the kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel
-- Manowar, "Call To Arms"
"We come on a ship they call the Mayflower
We come on a ship that sails the Moon
We come in the Age's most uncertain hour
And sing an American Tune"
-- Paul Simon, "An American Tune"
Oh I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
For the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
-- Paul Simon, "Mother and Child Reunion"
"Never give in -- never, never, never, *never*, in nothing great
or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of
honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the
apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." -- Winston
Churchill
Dawn has broke, the time has come,
Move your feet to a marching drum.
We'll win the war and pay the toll,
We'll fight as one in heart and soul.
Midnight mare and blood red roan,
Fight to keep this land your own.
Sound the horn and call the cry,
How many of them can we make die!
-- Heather Alexander, "March of Cambreadth"
Come, lonely hunter, chieftain and king
I will fly like the falcon when I go
Bear me, my brother, under your wing
I will strike, fell like lightning, when I go
I will bellow like the thunder drum,
Invoke the storm of war
A twisting pillar spun of dust and blood
Up from the prairie floor
I will sweep the foe before me
Like a gale out on the snow
And the wind will long recount the story,
Reverence and glory,
When I go.
-- Dave Carter, "When I Go"
There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides, met
To view the last of me, a living frame
For one more picture! in a sheet of flame
I saw them and I knew them all. And yet
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
And blew. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."
-- Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
-- Dylan Thomas
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.