“A church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon”
Jonathan King (1944) English singer, songwriter, impresario, record producer and film director
Song: Everyone's gone to the Moon
“The three-toed tree-toad
Sings his sweet ode
To the moon;
The funny bunny
And his honey
Trip in tune.”
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Sings his sweet ode
To the moon;
The funny bunny
And his honey
Trip in tune." by Arthur Guiterman?
Arthur Guiterman6
United States writer 1871–1943Related quotes
“Smooth are his words, his voice as honey sweet,
Yet war is in his heart, and dark deceit!”
Moschus Ancient Greek poet
'The Stray Cupid', tr. R. Polwhele, lines 14–15
Compare: "The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords." Psalm 55:21 (KJV)
The Idylliums of Moschus, Idyllium I
Tanith Lee book East of Midnight
Source: East of Midnight (1977), Chapter 2, “Full Moon” (p. 24; often repeated)
“Just as the root feeds the tree, so humility feeds the soul. The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and whoever is fed by this sweetness produces fruit.”
Sicut radix portat arborem, sic humilitas animam. Spiritus humilitatis est super mel dulcis, quo qui regitur dulcia poma facit.
Anthony of Padua (1195–1231) Franciscan
Sermon for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Part II: De bonae arboris fructificatione et de malae arboris excisione, par. 10)
Sermons
John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
Act III, scene 2. Song.
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, (c. 1617; revised c. 1627–30; published 1639)
Variant: Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallow-tree.