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4 Ralph Hodgson Quotes

Ralph Hodgson shares poetic musings on character and happiness that feel like gentle riddles for the reflective reader.

Ralph Hodgson quotes

  1. Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

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  2. 'Twould ring the bells of Heaven The wildest peal for years, If Parson lost his senses And people came to theirs, And he and they together Knelt down with angry prayers For tamed and shabby tigers And dancing dogs and bears, And wretched, blind, pit ponies, And little hunted hares.

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  3. Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirror'd on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, O! delighting me.

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  4. Hodgson, a man of steadfast integrity and strong personality, possessed true distinction.

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