Evelyn
Evelyn-Evelyn
Where were you last night?
Evelyn-Evelyn
Where were you last night?
waited on your front porch till the break of day
but when the dawn broke I could no longer wait for...
must have phoned a million times no answer came
what kind of fool am I to play this game with...
this has gone on before
I can't take it no more
I'll even up the score and
get away from...
if you must have your way you won't have me
I won't be pushed around I must get free from...
song performed by by The Tragically Hip from The Tragically Hip
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Evelyn
We walked till the sunlight died
How could I breathe without your love
Like others we all fight
Against the cruel cruel time
A hundred times a year
The wind blows
A hundred times a year
The wind blows through my skin
Through my skin
All the choices and many voices
Keep on telling me
Its you, evelyn
Its you, evelyn
We talked about wrong or right
I couldnt agree I had to shout
Sometimes we all must fight
Against the cruel heart of doubt
A hundred times a year
We find out
A hundred times a year
We find out
By experience
All the choices and many voices
Keep on telling me
Its you, evelyn
Its you, evelyn
You keep the rain from falling
You keep the rain from falling
Down on me
Evelyn
Everything will die for you
Everyone will cry for you
Evelyn, evelyn, evelyn
You keep the rain from falling
Down on me
Evelyn
song performed by by Xymox
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh in Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
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The Jungle Husband
Dearest Evelyn, I often think of you
Out with the guns in the jungle stew
Yesterday I hittapotamus
I put the measurements down for you but they got lost in the fuss
It's not a good thing to drink out here
You know, I've practically given it up dear.
Tomorrow I am going alone a long way
Into the jungle. It is all grey
But green on top
Only sometimes when a tree has fallen
The sun comes down plop, it is quite appalling.
You never want to go in a jungle pool
In the hot sun, it would be the act of a fool
Because it's always full of anacondas, Evelyn, not looking ill-fed
I'll say. So no more now, from your loving husband Wilfred.
poem by Stevie Smith
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Evelyn Hope
I
Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
Sit and watch by her side an hour.
That is her book-shelf, this her bed;
She plucked that piece of geranium-flower,
Beginning to die too, in the glass;
Little has yet been changed, I think:
The shutters are shut, no light may pass
Save two long rays thro' the hinge's chink.
II
Sixteen years old, when she died!
Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name;
It was not her time to love; beside,
Her life had many a hope and aim,
Duties enough and little cares,
And now was quiet, now astir,
Till God's hand beckoned unawares,—
And the sweet white brow is all of her.
III
Is it too late then, Evelyn Hope?
What, your soul was pure and true,
The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit, fire and dew—
And, just because I was thrice as old
And our paths in the world diverged so wide,
Each was nought to each, must I be told?
We were fellow mortals, nought beside?
IV
No, indeed! for God above
Is great to grant, as mighty to make,
And creates the love to reward the love:
I claim you still, for my own love's sake!
Delayed it may be for more lives yet,
Through worlds I shall traverse, not a few:
Much is to learn, much to forget
Ere the time be come for taking you.
V
But the time will come,—at last it will,
When, Evelyn Hope, what meant (I shall say)
In the lower earth, in the years long still,
That body and soul so pure and gay?
Why your hair was amber, I shall divine,
And your mouth of your own geranium's red—
And what you would do with me, in fine,
In the new life come in the old one's stead.
VI
I have lived (I shall say) so much since then,
Given up myself so many times,
Gained me the gains of various men,
Ransacked the ages, spoiled the climes;
Yet one thing, one, in my soul's full scope,
Either I missed or itself missed me:
And I want and find you, Evelyn Hope!
What is the issue? let us see!
VII
I loved you, Evelyn, all the while.
My heart seemed full as it could hold?
There was place and to spare for the frank young smile,
And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold.
So, hush,—I will give you this leaf to keep:
See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand!
There, that is our secret: go to sleep!
You will wake, and remember, and understand.
poem by Robert Browning from Men and Women (1855)
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God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
quote by Evelyn Underhill
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
quote by Evelyn Underhill
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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If every man did the little he could — what a different world!
quote by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
quote by Evelyn Underhill
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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Art is eternal, but life is short.
quote by Evelyn de Morgan
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Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
quote by Evelyn Underhill
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
quote by Evelyn de Morgan
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
quote by Evelyn Waugh
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