Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?
O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake:
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the watchman ever for thy sake:
For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.
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Bart: Election next month. Your Labour friends can start lying Michael.
Michael: Do you think they'll get in?
Bart: Not this time, Bonar Law's got it all tied up. Wouldn't be a bad thing if they did: taste of office might help them grow up .... Suppose they did get in? What could they do? Cure unemployment?
Michael: They might, Bart.
Bart: I doubt it, and what else? Would they abolish the cinema? teach English women to cook? make us grow our own food? will they hang all dabblers in poison gas? destroy all bombing aeroplanes and submarines?
Michael: They could try.
Bart: And what about the possesive principle that you disapprove of? Would they abolish that? No, not on your life m'boy. No! All party politics are top dressing. We're ruled by inventors and by human nature.
Michael: Oh-hoo you have got it bad guv'ner.
Bart: But seriously, do you find reality in politics now?
Michael: Oh-hoo, do you find reality in anything now?
Bart: Income Tax, perhaps.
Michael: Such simple faith, it touches me.
Bart: Everything fine and splendid is off: no big schemes; no great principles; no far-sighted views; no great religion; no great art. Just a lot of little men in little hats.
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- World War II didn't technically end until 3rd September 1990, with the reunification of East and West Germany
- In France the first recorded use of the Guillotine was in 1792 and last in 1977! The final unlucky soul was a one-legged criminal.
- The last Western country to grant women the right to vote was Switzerland. The year was 1971!
- For 5 days in the 13th Century (1281 to be precise), Chelmsford was the capital of England.
- If a soldier of the Roman Empire lost his shield he was punished with crucifixion. The idea was to deter others.
- The red fuzzy bit on the top of a Roman centurian's helmet had a practical use: it would point the direction during battle.
- Rome had it's own smog, caused by the burning of dung and straw, called 'nephos' (which is greek for 'cloud')
- The first breakfast cereal, introduced in 1891, was 'Shredded Wheat'.
- The Crimean Wars' dates are widely acknowledged to be 1854-6, but when Britain went to war with Russia the declaration read: "Victoria, Queen of Britian, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the dominions beyond the seas". The peace treaty of '56 failed to mention Berwick-upon-Tweed so, technically, they remained at war. In 1966 the Mayor of Berwick-upon-Tweed signed a peace treaty.
- HMS Queen's mascot during the Crimean War was a Tortoise names Timothy. He died in 2004.
- Whiskey was invented in Italy.
- Haggis was invented by the ancient Romans.
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