Congratulations to Lando!

For crying out loud anyone with a functioning brain & some integrity would have been!

I love the expression “L’esprit de l’escalier”.It could be on my tombstone. Those belated ripostes & bon mots.

Congratulations Liza, what a lovely Advent tradition.

Definitely! What on earth are you watching?

Strays, humans & animals.
I know there but for the Grace of God go I. I want to help heal their pain & loneliness.

He preached outside ( because of huge crowds) at St Paul’s Cathedral. It is still such a ringing call to humanity that we are one.

Thank you. I love my fragment.

Is this Gerard Manley Hopkins?

Send not to know for whom the bell tolls.
It tolls for thee.

A truly great poem imho

The John Doone book&movie title generator:

No man is an island,
Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were. /1

Also, plenty of them do remain, and his name is well remembered. Ramses comes out of this one better than Shelley does.

Factoid: Ozymandias (Ramses II) built more statues to himself than any other leader in history...until Stalin

Full many a flower
Is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweet breath
On the desert air