Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
“My country tis of thee,
To take swings at each other on talk-show TV.”
Tis of Thee
Song lyrics
“Thou, while thy babes around thee cling,
Shalt show us how divine a thing
A Woman may be made.”
To a Young Lady, st. 2 (1805).
"Old Sam Small" monologue http://monologues.co.uk/Sam_Small.htm
Sam, Sam, Pick Oop Tha' Musket
“Show me a prison, show me a jail
Show me a pris'ner whose face has grown pale”
"There but for Fortune" (1963); Ochs here paraphrases a proverbial expression "There, but for the grace of God, go I", which was itself a paraphrase of John Bradford's expression on seeing other prisoners being led to their execution as heretics to be burned at the stake: There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. (as quoted in Problems in the Relations of God and Man (1911) by Clement Charles Julian Webb, p. 107)
Lyrics
Context: Show me a prison, show me a jail
Show me a pris'ner whose face has grown pale
And I'll show you a young man
With many reasons why
There but for fortune, go you or I.
St. 22.
De Profundis (1862)
Context: Whatever's lost, it first was won;
We will not struggle nor impugn.
Perhaps the cup was broken here,
That Heaven's new wine might show more clear.
I praise Thee while my days go on.
Tore Down a la Rimbaud.
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)
