Word: blessing
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...poets are anti-slavery. An anonymous English lady thoughtfully composed songs for plantation slaves to sing while working: "Bless the fields we dig and plant! / Lord! supply our ev'ry want: / Give our souls and bodies food, / And grateful hearts for ev'ry good." James Boswell took time out from finishing the "Life of Johnson" to write an excruciatingly bad (and long) poem defending slavery, "No Abolition of Slavery," a work that until now has not been republished for some 210 years...
...began his sermon by introducing a choir from a South Korean elementary school, who sang “God Bless America...
...unrighteous man" (Lent), A. Malashkin"Today a Virgin" (Christmas Collect Hymn), G. Lvovsky"A Mercy of Peace: we praise Thee" (at the Consecration: Liturgy), V. Kalinnikoff"Let all mortal flesh" (Great Saturday), Archpriest TurtchaninoffThe Creed, A. Gretchaninoff"Hear my prayer, O Lord" from Psalm CII), A. ArkhangelskyPART II."Bless the Lord, O my Soul" (Liturgy), M. Ippolitoff-Ivanoff.The Cherubimic Hymn (The Great Entrance at the Liturgy), P. Tchaikovsky"My soul shall exault in the Lord" Liturgy), M. Balakireff"God is with us" (Christmas Eve), A. Kastalsky"Meet is it" (Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom), V. TcherepninLord, have mercy, An Ancient ChantLord...
...waist down, mostly. For a second he shouts, "You ain't nothin'..." as if to launch into the heretical "Hound Dog," but that's just a goof; he stops and quickly grins. At the end of his final appearance, Elvis offers a prayer for the viewers: "May God bless ya, as He's blessed...
...Wyandottes' not-so-subtle pressure apparently worked. Local officials agreed to let the tribe build a casino and hotel on a 52-acre parcel on Wyandotte County's western edge. U.S. Representative Dennis Moore, the area's Democratic Congressman, has introduced legislation to bless the deal in Congress, thus bypassing the BIA. If approved, the tribe would then have three reservations--in two states...