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Anne’s House of Dreams

The Song of Pilgrims Our kin
Have built them temples, and therein
Pray to the gods we know, and dwell
In little houses lovable.
2 Cleopatra Salad days
3 Hamlet ‘Tis true, ’tis pity, pity ’tis ’tis true
5 In a Gondola And her hair! It made me think of Browning’s `cord of gold’ and `gorgeous snake’!”
6 Ode to a Nightingale ‘A magic casement opening on the foam
Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn
Exodus 1:8 “the race that knows Joseph”
7 Psalm 55:6 …not like a dove `to fly away and be at rest,’ but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of a storm.
9 Ulysses Sail beyond the sunset and the baths
Of all the western stars until you die
Isaiah 55:1 You don’t have to pay anything–all that sea and sky free–`without money and without price.’
14 The Hanging of the Crane tales of land and sea And whatsoever might
betide The great forgotten world outside.
The Merchant of Venice Just one of earth’s many millions of homes, Anne–girl–but ours– OURS–our beacon in `a naughty world.
15 Behold the Bridegroom Cometh He turned Methodist just because the Presbyterian choir happened to be singing `Behold the bridegroom cometh’ for a collection piece when him and Margaret walked up the aisle the Sunday after they were married.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World …Speaking of heresy, reminds me, doctor–I’ve brought back that book you lent me–that Natural Law in the Spiritual World–I didn’t read more’n a third of it. I can read sense, and I can read nonsense, but that book is neither the one nor the other.
17 Macbeth The milk of human kindness and the wisdom of the serpent were mingled in his composition in delightful proportions.
19 Job 1:21 The Lord has given and the Lord has taken away, dearie,” she said through her own tears. “Blessed be the name of the Lord.
21 Resignation “a fair maiden clothed with celestial grace”
23 The Flying Dutchman Tell him the one about the captain who went crazy and imagined he was the Flying Dutchman.
26 Danae When she saw me she hurried in, and the wind caught her hair and swirled it all around her–Danae in her cloud. Somehow, just then the knowledge that I loved her came home to me…
28 The Miller’s Daughter ‘There’s something in the world amiss
Will beunriddled by and by
Genesis 3 “It was Eve ate the apple, Miss Cornelia.”
“Twas a he-creature tempted her,” retorted Miss Cornelia triumphantly.
Matthew 6:24 “Well, he thought that since he couldn’t serve God and Mammon he’d better stick to Mammon,” said Miss Cornelia crisply. “So he shouldn’t complain if he doesn’t find Mammon very good company now.”
29 OEnone Because right is right to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence
John 8 Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
35 Crossing the Bar Softly and clearly, while the seawind blew in on them, Anne repeated the beautiful lines of Tennyson’s wonderful swan song– “Crossing the Bar.”
39 Crossing the Bar Captain Jim Crosses the Bar
Auld Lang Syne Tain’t often I can entertain in such style. Set in, girls, set in! We’ll “tak a cup o’ kindness yet for auld lang syne.”