There were thirty million English who talked of England’s might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night. They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade; They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade. They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that [...]

There were thirty million English who talked of England’s might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night. They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade; They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade. They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that [...]

The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Memorializing Events in the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854 Written 1854 Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: ‘Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns’ he said: Into the valley [...]

    The lazy are slaughtered the world grows industrious   The ugly are slaughtered the world grows beautiful The foolish are slaughtered the world grows wise The sick are slaughtered the world grows healthy The sad are slaughtered the world grows merry The old are slaughtered the world grows young The enemies are slaughtered the [...]

  Babies haven’t any hair;    Old men’s heads are just as bare;– Between the cradle and the grave    Lies a haircut and a shave.   –Samuel Hoffenstein

Take up the White Man’s burden—     Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile     To serve your captives’ need; To wait, in heavy harness,     On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples,     Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man’s burden—     In patience to abide, To veil the [...]

  “My Jesu swet I go to mete His body is my soles delete. Always I rise from the glomby earth When Jesu sucketh me with his swet mouth.”   –attributed to St. Dorothea of Montau, ca. 1390 Dorethea was an ascetic, flagellant, ecstatic visionary, immured alive in the walls of the Marienwerder Cathedral, Danzig [...]