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• The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 1...
• BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably
  a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind....
• RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites.
  Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge....
• EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
  O, what's the loud uproar assailing Mine ears without cease?...
• HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace.
  Twaddle had a hovel, Twiddle had a palace...