The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108269   Message #2252374
Posted By: Peace
03-Feb-08 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: Buddy Holly - folk singer
Subject: RE: Buddy Holly - folk singer
IMO, we could sure use him and his music these days. I guess Bill and his generation could have, too.

THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

William Wordsworth