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Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic

Robert Burns

WITH Esop’s lion, Burns says: Sore I feel
Each other’s scorn, but damn that ass’ heel!




Quotes of the Day

People CANNOT be labeled. Everyone borrows different pieces of various idealogies which is what makes us so unique.
• Lisa Johnson


Poems of the Day
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    They Shall Not Win
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    Whatever the strength of our foes is now, Whatever it may have been, This is our slogan, and this our vow- They shall not win, they shall not win. Though out of the darkness they call the aid