Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney

To watch the storms, and hear the sky
Give all our almanacks the lie;
To shake with cold, and see the plains
In autumn drown'd with wintry rains;
'Tis thus I spend my moments here,
And wish myself a Dutch mynheer;
I then should have no need of wit;
For lumpish Hollander unfit!
Nor should I then repine at mud.
Or meadows deluged with a flood;
But in a bog live well content,
And find it just my element;
Should be a clod, and not a man;
Nor wish in vain for Sister Ann,
With charitable aid to drag
My mind out of its proper quag;
Should have the genius of a boor,
And no ambition to have more.

poem by William Cowper
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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

quote by John Lothrop Motley
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I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

quote by Audrey Hepburn
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Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.

quote by Emo Philips
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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

quote by John Lothrop Motley
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When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

quote by Mira Sorvino
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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

quote by Otto Schily
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I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.

quote by Alan Vega
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Everybody Wins

Afterwards is when the game begins.
When games are being played they hardly are a game,
but once they’re over winners, losers both can blame
the other side, and everybody wins.

Johann Cruyff, the captain of the Dutch soccer team, said: “The game always begins afterwards” according to a review of “Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football, ” by David Winner (Bloomsbury) in The Economist, June 24,2000) .

6/25/00

poem by Gershon Hepner
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Johanna Brandt

To me Johanna Brandt is a prime example
of such a person, who were clinging
to her integrity and bravely lived
to what she thought was right.

She was the daughter
of the well known reformed minister
Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo
who played a leading role
during the first Anglo-Boer war

that came to an end
with the Boer victory at Majuba hill.
Johanna had a beautiful
soprano voice and got music instruction

form a Mrs Uggla,
(a Swedish music teacher) ,
and used to sing the solo parts
at choir performances.

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poem by Gert Strydom
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Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

quote by M.E.W. Sherwood
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My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.

quote by William Kidd
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To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.

quote by John G. D. Clark
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Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

quote by Stone Gossard
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Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

quote by Keren Ann
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Goo-goo to form-Cauchy3

Goo-goo to form…
Dutch nickels steal my sweet.
Dutch girls will kiss a wheel.
Drop a cog with dropping cars.
Utmost powers check in masses.

Goo-goo to forms are all to stir.
Fanny plays the Irish whist.
Cauchy3 will stop by iron crosses.
Iron bounds are Jimmy spots.

Going on-s are inmost laws.
Powers happy killed our man.
Hankers teased happy made.
Happy powers all will take.

Happy works are faro banks.
Fast in laws are fast to paint.
Happy powers fanny mob.
Rude and fast are goodie not.

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poem by Cheung Shun Sang
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The Heavenly Hills of Holland

The heavenly hills of Holland,--
How wondrously they rise
Above the smooth green pastures
Into the azure skies!
With blue and purple hollows,
With peaks of dazzling snow,
Along the far horizon
The clouds are marching slow.

No mortal foot has trodden
The summits of that range,
Nor walked those mystic valleys
Whose colors ever change;
Yet we possess their beauty,
And visit them in dreams,
While the ruddy gold of sunset
From cliff and canyon gleams.

In days of cloudless weather
They melt into the light;

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poem by Henry Van Dyke
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I Dreamt... (Judgement)

i dreamt...
having left this body,
i stood in the netherlands,
waiting for what came next...
i heard a voice,
that made my soul tremble...
a voice that had eyes.

'are you here to judge me? ' i asked.
there was a great silence...
then these words cut through the dark:
'no, judge yourself! '

poem by Eric Cockrell
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Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana

When you with High-Dutch Heeren dine,
Expect false Latin and stum'd wine:
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.

poem by Matthew Prior
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I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

quote by Theo Van Gogh
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