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“Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.”

Failing Fairs Blow Poppies

Author:William C. Bryant

“I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.”

“I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.”

Failing Fields Spring Blow Paradise Lilies Hail Hopkins

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.”

People Has Beens Problem Cities Failing Air Wind Environmental Clouds Blow Fortunate Concentration Pollution Conservation Urgent Poisonous

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969