The fish who is in the weir will want out, who is outside will want inside the weir.
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The Herring Weir
Back to the green deeps of the outer bay
The red and amber currents glide and cringe,
Diminishing behind a luminous fringe
Of cream-white surf and wandering wraiths of spray.
Stealthily, in the old reluctant way,
The red flats are uncovered, mile on mile,
To glitter in the sun a golden while.
Far down the flats, a phantom sharply grey,
The herring weir emerges, quick with spoil.
Slowly the tide forsakes it. Then draws near,
Descending from the farm-house on the height,
A cart, with gaping tubs. The oxen toil
Sombrely o'er the level to the weir,
And drag a long black trail across the light.
poem by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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Know You The River NEar To Grez
KNOW you the river near to Grez,
A river deep and clear?
Among the lilies all the way,
That ancient river runs to-day
From snowy weir to weir.
Old as the Rhine of great renown,
She hurries clear and fast,
She runs amain by field and town
From south to north, from up to down,
To present on from past.
The love I hold was borne by her;
And now, though far away,
My lonely spirit hears the stir
Of water round the starling spur
Beside the bridge at Grez.
So may that love forever hold
In life an equal pace;
So may that love grow never old,
But, clear and pure and fountain-cold,
Go on from grace to grace.
poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
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What I like best about music is when time goes away.
You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.
Music stops you from thinking.
quote by Peter Weir
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When I'm on with my putting, I'm as good a putter as there is, probably.
The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
quote by Brian Weir
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I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
quote by Arabella Weir
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The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.
As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.
When you are very old...
translation of a famous sonnet by Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)
from Sonnets for Hélène
When you are very old, at evening, by the fire,
spinning wool by candlelight and winding it in skeins,
you will say in wonderment as you recite my lines:
'Ronsard admired me in the days when I was fair.'
Then not one of your servants dozing gently there
hearing my name's cadence break through your low repines
but will start into wakefulness out of her dreams
and bless your name - immortalised by my desire.
I'll be underneath the ground, and a boneless shade
taking my long rest in the scented myrtle-glade,
and you'll be an old woman, nodding towards life's close,
regretting my love, and regretting your disdain.
Heed me, and live for now: this time won't come again.
Come, pluck now - today - life's so quickly-fading rose.
(translation by Anthony Weir)
poem by Anthony Weir
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This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.
They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
A weir close to completion left undone due to the shortage of a basket of earth.
Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.