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...over the world last Sunday, Anglican and Episcopal priests read the collect for the Sunday next before Advent: "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people. . . ." But few & far between were the clergy who followed the old English custom of Stir Up Sunday, taking their sermon texts from the collect's opening sentence. Fewer still were the irreverent moppets who piped the day's old ditty...
Stir up, we beseech thee...
...often composed lying in bed on a flood of pillows, cursing elegantly at the gout but sticking to his scores for 16 hours at a stretch. His popular songs had titles like How Do I Love Thee, Spring's First Kiss, I Love Thee So, Can I Forget. He wrote concert reviews for many years on the old New York World and Journal. In 1920, attending a supper in his honor, 60-year-old Reginald de Koven was stricken with apoplexy. He died a few minutes later...
...have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out out of mind . . . I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion...
...Pravda and Red Fleet, famed Soviet Author Leonid Sobolev tackled the Get thee behind me, Satan problem with humor. He warned Red Army men who had seldom seen luxury goods in Russian shopwindows, that "a lot of outward tinsel will dazzle your eyes." He warned them "not to believe in the deceitful phantoms of a false civilization." Some of Sobolev's "deceitful phantoms": sleek automobiles, bright advertisements, well-to-do homes with shutters mysteriously drawn to hide "cheap luxuries," fat businessmen with gold watch chains looped across their well-fed midriffs...