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Letter "T" » The Swan
«But calm, white calm, was born into a swan»
«Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.»
«I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep / Beyond the village which men still call Tyre.»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
(Writer)
| Keywords:
asleep, ships, Swans, The Swan, The Village, tyre, village
«First, the baby loves mother's milk; second, he learns of his mother and father; third, his brothers, sisters and aunts; fourth, the love of play awakens. Fifth, he runs after food and drink; sixth, in his sexual desire, he does not respect social customs. Seventh, he gathers wealth and dwells in his house; eighth, he becomes angry, and his body is consumed. Ninth, he turns grey, and his breathing becomes labored; tenth, he is cremated, and turns to ashes. His companions send him off, crying out and lamenting. The swan of the soul takes flight, and asks which way to go.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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aunts, companions, cremate, cremated, customs, eighth, first flight, gathers, grey, lamenting, ninth, seventh, sexual desire, sixth, social gathering, swan, The Swan
«But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, / And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, / And every raven after his kind, / And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, / The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, / And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, / And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.»
«And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, / And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; / Every raven after his kind; / And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, / And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, / And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, / And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.»
«Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?»
«In one way, the fickle fish of the mind will be held steady; the swan-soul shall not fly away, and the body-wall will not crumble»
«But when the swan departs, you shall remain behind, like an abandoned woman.»
«And now this pale swan in her watery nestBegins the sad dirge of her certain ending.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dirge, pale, swan, Swans, The Swan, watery
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