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# Harmonium (Stevens)/The Weeping Burgher

The Weeping Burgher
It is with a strange malice
That I distort the world.
Ah! that ill humors
Should mask as white girls.
And ah! that Scaramouche
Should have a black barouche.
The sorry verities!
Yet in excess, continual,
There is cure of sorrow.
Permit that if as ghost I come
Among the people burning in me still,
I come as belle design
Of foppish line.
And I, then, tortured for old speech,
A white of wildly woven rings;
I, weeping in a calcined heart,
My hands such sharp, imagined things.
# Harmonium (Stevens)/Theory

Theory
I am what is around me.
Women understand this.
One is not duchess
A hundred yards from a carriage.
These, then are portraits:
A black vestibule;
A high bed sheltered by curtains.
These are merely instances.
# Flappers and Philosophers/Benediction

From Flappers and Philosophers
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
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# Flappers and Philosophers/Benediction/Chapter 5

V
"Lie still, child."
She closed her eyes again. She was on the grass outside, pillowed on Keith’s arm, and Regan was dabbing her head with a cold towel.
"I'm all right," she said quietly.
"I know, but just lie still a minute longer. It was too hot in there. Jarvis felt it, too."
She laughed as Regan again touched her gingerly with the towel.
"I'm all right," she repeated.
But though a warm peace was falling her mind and heart she felt oddly broken and chastened, as if some one had held her stripped soul up and laughed.
# Flappers and Philosophers/Benediction/Chapter 7

VII
The first clerk in the telegraph booth in the Baltimore Station whistled through his buck teeth at the second clerk:
"S'matter?"
"See that girl—no, the pretty one with the big black dots on her veil. Too late—she's gone. You missed somep'n."
"What about her?"
"Nothing. 'Cept she's damn good-looking. Came in here yesterday and sent a wire to some guy to meet her somewhere. Then a minute ago she came in with a telegram all written out and was standin' there goin' to give it to me when she changed her mind or somep'n and all of a sudden tore it up."
"Hm."
The first clerk came around tile counter and picking up the two pieces of paper from the floor put ​them together idly. The second clerk read them over his shoulder and subconsciously counted the words as he read. There were just thirteen.
"This is in the way of a permanent goodbye. I should suggest Italy.
"Lois."
"Tore it up, eh?" said the second clerk.
# Flappers and Philosophers/Benediction/Chapter 1

BENEDICTION
The Baltimore Station was hot and crowded, so Lois was forced to stand by the telegraph desk for interminable, sticky seconds while a clerk with big front teeth counted and recounted a large lady's day message, to determine whether it contained the innocuous forty-nine words or the fatal fifty-one.
Lois, waiting, decided she wasn't quite sure of the address, so she took the letter out of her bag and ran over it again.
"Darling," it began—"I understand and I'm happier than life ever meant me to be. If I could give you the things you've always been in tune with—but I can't Lois; we can't marry and we can't lose each other and let all this glorious love end in nothing.
"Until your letter came, dear, I'd been sitting here in the half dark and thinking where I could go and ever forget you; abroad, perhaps, to drift through Italy or Spain and dream away the pain of having lost you where the crumbling ruins of older, mellower civilizations would mirror only the desolation of my heart—and then your letter came.
"Sweetest, bravest girl, if you'll wire me I'll meet you in Wilmington—till then I'll be here just waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true.
"Howard."
​ She had read the letter so many times that she knew it word by word, yet it still startled her. In it she found many faint reflections of the man who wrote it—the mingled sweetness and sadness in his dark eyes, the furtive, restless excitement she felt sometimes when he talked to her, his dreamy sensuousness that lulled her mind to sleep. Lois was nineteen and very romantic and curious and courageous.
The large lady and the clerk having compromised on fifty words, Lois took a blank and wrote her telegram. And there were no overtones to the finality of her decision.
It's just destiny—she thought—it's just the way things work out in this damn world. If cowardice is all that's been holding me back there won't be any more holding back. So we'll just let things take their course and never be sorry.
The clerk scanned her telegram:
"Arrived Baltimore today spend day with my brother meet me Wilmington three P.M. Wednesday Love
"Lois."
"Fifty-four cents," said the clerk admiringly.
And never be sorry—thought Lois—and never be sorry——
# Flappers and Philosophers

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FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS
BY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
AUTHOR OF "THIS SIDE OF PARADISE"
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1921
TO ZELDA
CONTENTS :
| page ||
| The Offshore Pirate | 3 |
| The Ice Palace | 49 |
| Head and Shoulders | 87 |
| The Cut-Glass Bowl | 124 |
| Bernice Bobs Her Hair | 155 |
| Benediction | 194 |
| Dalyrimple Goes Wrong | 219 |
| The Four Fists | 245 |
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# Flappers and Philosophers/Benediction/Chapter 3

III
Back in the reception-room Lois met a half-dozen more of Keith’s particular friends; there was a young man named Jarvis, rather pale and delicate-looking, who, she knew, must be a grandson of old Mrs. Jarvis at home, and she mentally compared this ascetic with a brace of his riotous uncles.
And there was Regan with a scarred face and piercing intent eyes that followed her about the room and often rested on Keith with something very like worship. She knew then what Keith had meant about "a good man to have with you in a fight."
He's the missionary type—she thought vaguely—China or something.
"I want Keith’s sister to show us what the shimmy is," demanded one young man with a broad grin.
Lois laughed.
"I'm afraid the Father Rector would send me shimmying out the gate. Besides, I'm not an expert."
​"I'm sure it wouldn't be best for Jimmy's soul anyway," said Keith solemnly. "He's inclined to brood about things like shimmys. They were just starting to do the—maxixe, wasn't it, Jimmy?—when he became a monk, and it haunted him his whole first year. You'd see him when he was peeling potatoes, putting his arm around the bucket and making irreligious motions with his feet."
There was a general laugh in which Lois joined.
"An old lady who comes here to Mass sent Keith this ice-cream," whispered Jarvis under cover of the laugh, "because she'd heard you were coming. It's pretty good, isn't it?"
There were tears trembling in Lois' eyes.
# Heine v. Levee Commissioners

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United States Supreme Court
86 U.S. 655
Heine v. Levee Commissioners
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana.
This was a suit in chancery brought by Heine and others, holders of bonds issued by what is called the board of levee commissioners of the levee district for the parishes of Carroll and Madison of the State of Louisiana. The board thus described was made a quasi corporation by the legislature of Louisiana, with authority to issue the bonds and provide for the payment of interest and principal by taxes levied upon the real and personal property within the district. The bill alleged a failure to levy these taxes and to pay the interest on any part of said bonds, that the persons duly appointed levee commissioners had pretended to resign their office for the purpose of evading this duty, and that the complainants had applied in vain to the judge of the District Court, who was by statute authorized to levy a tax on the alluvial lands to pay the bonds if the levee commissioners failed to do so. The prayer for relief was that the levee commissioners be required to assess and collect the tax necessary to pay the bonds and interest, and if, after reasonable time, they failed to do so, that the district judge be ordered to do the same; and for such other and further relief as the nature of the case required.
No judgment at law had been recovered on the bonds or any of them, nor any attempt to collect the money due by suit in the common-law court.
A demurrer to the bill was sustained in the Circuit Court, and the plaintiffs appealed from the decree of dismissal rendered on that demurrer.
Mr. Thomas Allen Clarke, for the appellants, contended:
That the commissioners having resigned could no longer in their corporate capacity be sued at law.
That there was a contract between the bondholders and the corporation not unlike an equitable mortgage; for that the contract was not simply an agreement to pay money but one to pay money out of a fund under the control of the commissioners; that it belonged specially to equity to enforce such a contract.
That it was part of the contract that the taxes should pay these bonds; that the holders had, therefore, a species of lien on the lands on which the taxes were to be laid; this again being a matter specially of equitable cognizance.
That though the suit was by a bill in equity, yet that it might be taken (other grounds of relief failing) as a petition for mandamus.
That the case, in short, was a very complicated case, such as the law afforded no relief for; and that one was to be worked out through equitable mechanism unless a shocking injustice was to be tolerated.
Messrs. S. R. Walker, W. Tunstall, and J. E. Leonard, contra.
Mr. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/A key

A KEY.
My virtue is such, that I
Can do the thing with ease,
Which strength and force will never do,
Employ them as you please.
# Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/A parrot

A PARROT.
Cloth'd in yellow, red, and green,
 I prate before the King and Queen;
Of neither house nor land possess'd,
 By lords and knights I am caress'd.
# Gammer Gurton's Garland

Gammer Gurton's Garland: or, The Nursery Parnassus, edited by the literary antiquary Joseph Ritson, is one of the earliest collections of English nursery rhymes. It was first published as a chapbook in 1784, but was three times reprinted in expanded editions during the following century, as were several unrelated children's books with similar titles. Gammer Gurton's Garland put into print for the first time some of our best-known nursery rhymes. Warning: template has been deprecated.
* Gammer Gurton's Garland (1st edition, 1784) (no scans available)
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* Gammer Gurton's Garland (4th edition, 1866) (transcription project)
# Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles

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GAMMER GURTON's
GARLAND OF
NURSERY SONGS,
AND
TOBY TICKLE'S
Collection of
RIDDLES.
Compiled by
PETER PUZZLECAP, Esq.
Glasgow:
Published and Sold Wholesale,
BY LUMSDEN AND SON.
[Price Twopence.]
* Gammer Gurton's advice to all good children
* Cock-a-doodle-do
* Father Grey-beard
* Ride away
* Hay-maker
* The robbers
* A fiddler
* Trundling a hoop
* The cuckoo
* Baa baa, black sheep
* Goosey
* Strawberries
PETER PUZZLECAP, Esq.
* Toby Tickle
* The alphabet
* A drum
* Bottled ale
* A key
* Miser
* A parrot
* Ship
* A tree
* A sheep
* An ox
* Story of little Scug
* Rules for daily practice
* The good child's reward
—— F I N I S. ——
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# Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/A drum

A DRUM.
My sides are firmly lac'd about,
Yet nothing is within:
You'll think my head is strange indeed,
Being nothing else but skin.
# Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/A fiddler

A FIDDLER.
Jacky, come give me thy fiddle,
 If ever thou mean to thrive.
Nay; I'll not give my fiddle
 To any man alive.
If I should give my fiddle;
 They'll think that I'm gone mad,
For many a joyful day
 My fiddle and I have had.
# Getting Married/Unpopularity of Impersonal Views

Unfortunately it is very hard to make an average citizen take impersonal views of any sort in matters affecting personal comfort or conduct. We may be enthusiastic Liberals or Conservatives without any hope of seats in Parliament, knighthoods, or posts in the Government, because party politics do not make the slightest difference in our daily lives and therefore cost us nothing. But to take a vital process in which we are keenly interested personal instruments, and ask us to regard it, and feel about it, and legislate on it, wholly as if it were an impersonal one, is to make a higher demand than most people seem capable of responding to. We all have personal interests in marriage which we are not prepared to sink. It is not only the women who want to get married: the men do too, sometimes on sentimental grounds, sometimes on the more sordid calculation that bachelor life is less comfortable and more expensive, since a wife pays for her status with domestic service as well as with the other services expected of her. Now that children are avoidable, this calculation is becoming more common and conscious than it was: a result which is regarded as "a steady improvement in general morality."
# Getting Married/Wanted: an Immoral Statesman

We now see that the statesman who undertakes to deal with marriage will have to face an amazingly complicated public opinion. In fact, he will have to leave opinion as far as possible out of the question, and deal with human nature instead. For even if there could be any real public opinion in a society like ours, which is a mere mob of classes, each with its own habits and prejudices, it would be at best a jumble of superstitions and interests, taboos and hypocrisies, which could not be reconciled in any coherent enactment. It would probably proclaim passionately that it does not matter in the least what sort of children we have, or how few or how many, provided the children are legitimate. Also that it does not matter in the least what sort of adults we have, provided they are married. No statesman worth the name can possibly act on these views. He is bound to prefer one healthy illegitimate child to ten rickety legitimate ones, and one energetic and capable unmarried couple to a dozen inferior apathetic husbands and wives. If it could be proved that illicit unions produce three children each and marriages only one and a half, he would be bound to encourage illicit unions and discourage and even penalize marriage. The common notion that the existing forms of marriage are not political contrivances, but sacred ethical obligations to which everything, even the very existence of the human race, must be sacrificed if necessary (and this is what the vulgar morality we mostly profess on the subject comes to) is one on which no sane Government could act for a moment; and yet it influences, or is believed to influence, so many votes, that no Government will touch the marriage question if it can possibly help it, even when there is a demand for the extension of marriage, as in the case of the recent long-delayed Act legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister. When a reform in the other direction is needed (for example, an extension of divorce), not even the existence of the most unbearable hardships will induce our statesmen to move so long as the victims submit sheepishly, though when they take the remedy into their own hands an inquiry is soon begun. But what is now making some action in the matter imperative is neither the sufferings of those who are tied for life to criminals, drunkards, physically unsound and dangerous mates, and worthless and unamiable people generally, nor the immorality of the couples condemned to celibacy by separation orders which do not annul their marriages, but the fall in the birth rate. Public opinion will not help us out of this difficulty: on the contrary, it will, if it be allowed, punish anybody who mentions it. When Zola tried to repopulate France by writing a novel in praise of parentage, the only comment made here was that the book could not possibly be translated into English, as its subject was too improper.
# Gettys v. Newburger

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United States Supreme Court
260 U.S. 693
Gettys v. Newburger
Messrs. W. A. Ledbetter, H. L. Stuart and R. R. Bell, all of Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiffs in error.
Messrs. Henry E. Asp, Henry G. Snyder, Frederick B. Owen, and Walter A. Lybrand, all of Oklahoma City, Okl., and Bernard Titche, of New Orleans, La., for defendants in error.
PER CURIAM.

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# Gettys v. Newburger/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
260 U.S. 693
Gettys v. Newburger
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Spencer v. Duplan Silk Co., 191 U.S. 526, 530; Shulthis v. McDougal, 225 U.S. 561, 569; Hull v. Burr, 234 U.S. 712, 720, 34 Sup. Ct. 892, 58 L. Ed. 1557; Norton v. Whiteside, 239 U.S. 144, 147, 36 Sup. Ct. 97, 60 L. Ed. 186.

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* ↑ 24 Sup. Ct. 174, 48 L. Ed. 287.
* ↑ 32 Sup. Ct. 704, 56 L. Ed. 1205.
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# Gettings v. Burch's Administratix

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United States Supreme Court
13 U.S. 372
Gettings v. Burch's Administratix

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# Getting Married/Why Statesmen Shirk the Marriage Question

The reform of marriage, then, will be a very splendid and very hazardous adventure for the Prime Minister who takes it in hand. He will be posted on every hoarding and denounced in every Opposition paper, especially in the sporting papers, as the destroyer of the home, the family, of decency, of morality, of chastity and what not. All the commonplaces of the modern anti-Socialist Noodle's Oration will be hurled at him. And he will have to proceed without the slightest concession to it, giving the noodles nothing but their due in the assurance "I know how to attain our ends better than you," and staking his political life on the conviction carried by that assurance, which conviction will depend a good deal on the certainty with which it is made, which again can be attained only by studying the facts of marriage and understanding the needs of the nation. And, after all, he will find that the pious commonplaces on which he and the electorate are agreed conceal an utter difference in the real ends in view: his being public, far-sighted, and impersonal, and those of multitudes of the electorate narrow, personal, jealous, and corrupt. Under such circumstances, it is not to be wondered at that the mere mention of the marriage question makes a British Cabinet shiver with apprehension and hastily pass on to safer business. Nevertheless the reform of marriage cannot be put off for ever. When its hour comes, what are the points the Cabinet will have to take up?
# In Flanders Fields and Other Poems/The Pilgrims

University Magazine, 1905
The Pilgrims
AN uphill path, sun-gleams between the showers, Where every beam that broke the leaden sky Lit other hills with fairer ways than ours; Some clustered graves where half our memories lie; And one grim Shadow creeping ever nigh: And this was Life.
Wherein we did another's burden seek, The tired feet we helped upon the road, The hand we gave the weary and the weak, The miles we lightened one another's load, When, faint to falling, onward yet we strode: This too was Life.
​Till, at the upland, as we turned to go Amid fair meadows, dusky in the night, The mists fell back upon the road below; Broke on our tired eyes the western light; The very graves were for a moment bright: And this was Death.
# In Flanders Fields and Other Poems/The Dying of Père Pierre

University Magazine, 1895
The Dying of Père Pierre
"… with two other priests; the same night he died, and was buried by the shores of the lake that bears his name."
Chronicle.
"NAY, grieve not that ye can no honour give To these poor bones that presently must be But carrion; since I have sought to live Upon God's earth, as He hath guided me, I shall not lack! Where would ye have me lie? High heaven is higher than cathedral nave: Do men paint chancels fairer than the sky?" Beside the darkened lake they made his grave, Below the altar of the hills; and night Swung incense clouds of mist in creeping lines ​That twisted through the tree-trunks, where the light Groped through the arches of the silent pines: And he, beside the lonely path he trod, Lay, tombed in splendour, in the House of God.
# In Flanders Fields and Other Poems/The Night Cometh

University Magazine, 1913
The Night Cometh
COMETH the night. The wind falls low, The trees swing slowly to and fro: Around the church the headstones grey Cluster, like children strayed away But found again, and folded so.
No chiding look doth she bestow: If she is glad, they cannot know; If ill or well they spend their day, Cometh the night.
Singing or sad, intent they go; They do not see the shadows grow; "There yet is time," they lightly say, "Before our work aside we lay"; Their task is but half-done, and lo! Cometh the night.
# In Flanders Fields and Other Poems/The Oldest Drama

University Magazine, 1907
The Oldest Drama
"It fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. And … he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. And she went up, and laid him on the bed.… And shut the door upon him and went out."
IMMORTAL story that no mother's heart Ev'n yet can read, nor feel the biting pain That rent her soul! Immortal not by art Which makes a long past sorrow sting again
Like grief of yesterday: but since it said In simplest word the truth which all may see, Where any mother sobs above her dead And plays anew the silent tragedy.