WISE MEN SAY

Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun. - Kahlil Gibran

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JOHN'S GALLERY

The Captive's Return, by Henry Ryland (1856-1924)

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POETRY FOR PLEASURE

Some verses giving advice
by
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

1
A Charme, or an Allay for Love

If so be a toad be laid
In a sheepskin newly flaid,
And that tied to a man ‘twill sever
Him and his affections ever.

2
To Women, to Hide their Teeth, if They be Rotten or Rusty

Close keep your lips, if that you mean
To be accounted inside clean;
For if you cleave them, we shall see
There in your teeth much leprosie

3
To his Book

Who with thy leaves shall wipe (at need)
The place, where swelling piles do breed;
May every ill that bites or smarts
Perplex him in his hinder-parts.

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TAKE YOUR PARTNERS

"What more can I ask?" is played here by Lew Stone and the Monseigneur Band.
The singer is Al Bowlly.

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