Word: erring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cairo the body of Fuad went on a gun carriage, without women or flowers, from Abdin Palace to the Mosque of Er-Rifái on Citadel Hill where lie his dynastic ancestors. As the coffin reached the Mosque, soldiers cut the throats of seven live bulls lying shackled on the pavement. After the simple funeral exuberant Egyptians poured through the streets of Cairo shouting, "Long live Farouk, King of Egypt and the Sudan...
whene'er good fortune lets...
...gleaming rails-the twin steel bands Of Commerce-spanning verdant isles, Running o'er the sea miles on miles; In old Key West their mission ends, Dreadnoughts to her each nation sends And wealth & fame all this portends...
...host of the people do not feel shame; yea and more also if ought they do but take timbrels in their hands and line the place wherein the vow is to be done. Wherefore do they judge o'er all the land the men, and which the larger; to which the longer arm, and which the mightier in his youth. Forgive them for they know not what they...
...parent's mid-year lament: Unfair Harvard, my son hast thou thrust from thy gates And with curses surrendered him o'er From imperial splendor of Lowell House Hall To a lodging that's on a top floor. Oh what was the use of his ancestor's work, Of his father's bombastic degrees, In History, Gov., Economics, and Math Master Johnny's been taking...