The Vision
An average man was Private Flynn,
Good stuff for soldiering, no doubt;
Troublesome when the drink was in,
A quiet lad when it was out.
Too fond of gaming and the girls,
And given to 'language' that would fright
His mother dreaming of his curls
And his soft boyish ways at night.
He had forgotten how to pray
The way she taught him at her knees.
Her prayers ran like a river all day,
And while she slept gave little ease.
The Calvary, by Souchez, holds
Wide arms to clasp the new-made beds,
Where lie, nor toss their browns and golds,
The precious, the beloved heads.
Flynn's Captain, who had proved a friend
At times a friend is needed most,
Slept there, and comfort was at end
Because Flynn's faithful friend was lost.
'Gassed.' O'er that twisted grace and dumb,
Flynn swore a choking oath to give
No quarter when the day should come
And fed his hate to thrive and live.
Lest that his Captain feel forgot,
At night when all the trenches slept,
Flynn tended like a garden plot
The grave o'er which the night-dews wept.
He raised a little cross of sticks,
Pansies, forget-me-nots, amid;
Over him the gaunt Crucifix
Shed comfort -- or he thought it did.
Rank disobedience! No one knew
How Flynn, so devil-may-care and brave,
Courted destruction just to do
A little gardening on a grave.
One night the shells lit all the dark,
Burst in a million splinters of flame;
At morn, before the singing lark,
Flynn to his tender office came.
He smoothed the clay where it was rough,
With his hard tender hand he drew
As 'twere a quilt of silken stuff
Between the sleeper and the dew.
All done, he stretched his six foot four,
And yawning, in the dawn's pale glow,
Bent to the Crucifix once more,
Saluted ere he turned to go.
Then here's the marvel -- the dead Christ
Opened His Eyes, the very Eyes
That Mary loved, which through a mist
The saved souls see in Paradise.
Flynn, like Elijah, caught to Heaven!
Plain Private Flynn -- saw God revealed!
Unto a simple soldier given
The secret heart of Heaven unsealed.
Could he go back to common joys
After the joys of Heaven were won?
The quietness was rent with noise,
The death sprang from the hidden gun.
They shot Flynn's eyes out. That was good.
Eyes that saw God are better blind.
Flynn muses on beatitude,
His empty eye-sockets behind.
In a bare London hospital ward
He smiles and prays the live-long day.
He who has seen the living Lord
Has Light upon the darkest way.
poem by Katharine Tynan
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Out On The Town
They called her synthesizer suzi
And fast fingers flynn and
Bobby you played saxophone
Like youd never play again
We all four got together
In a divey weekend bar
Working on our standards
Seeing who would be the star
Out on the town
Bobby I knew you were a gambler
cause you made my wheel spin
I should have known you cheated
cause youd never fail to win
We all knew you were a joker
And your luck was running thin
When they took you one cold morning
Out on the town
Out on the town
Were gonna make our rounds
Out on the town
Were gonna close it down
Out on the town
To the last call of the last bar
Out on the town
Now I walk along these darkened streets
With an open mind cause Im tryin to reach
The memory that brought me here
On this lonely night for one last tear
Suzi you moved up town for good
Flynn you would if you thought you could
And Im still staring these same walls down
On a dirty street out on the town
Out on the town
Were gonna make our rounds
Out on the town
Were gonna close it down
Out on the town
To the last call of the last bar
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I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.
quote by Errol Flynn
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical.
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Dont Hang Up
Hello there
How have you been
Ive called a million times
But to me youre never in
I know I never had the style
Or dash of errol flynn
But I loved you
Im doing really well
Im as happy as a lark
I got a new apartment
Its as safe as central park
And if they ever mug me
When Im walking in the dark
Will you know
Dont hang up
Dont hang up
Rolled up in my camera
With the big cheese up above
I stumbled from my stag night
To a never ending limousine
The band went la di da di da
And I got loady do di dodied
Lousy violins began to play
I went no no no
And as the vol-au-vents exploded
I was walking down the aisle the other way
Dont hang up
Dont hang up
Dont say, oooh
Nobodys safe in our house
Leave me alone
But a but a please
Leave me alone
Just a mo, a minute
Im so alone
We had
Some honeymoon on itchy bedding
Scum buzzing round your busy body
Dumb waiters waiting sweating straining
All mass-debating my woman
We got a
Bum guatemala pensione
Crumbling about our ears, ole
Even the trash man he say
You got a dustbin romance
Its going down the drain
You got a low impedence
Shes got a rocky terrain
Oo, you got a lot to learn
Oo, you got a lot to learn
You got a lot to learn about women
A lot to learn about women women
Whats to learn about women
Weve both got a lot to learn
Surprise surprise
Theres a hell of a well in your eyes
Have we won the no nobel prize
Has the colour run out of our dies
Surprise surprise
Theres a hell of a well in your eyes
When the barman said whatre you drinking?
I said marriage on the rocks
I know I never had the style
Or dash of errol flynn
But I loved you
Dont hang up
Dont hang up
Dont say ......
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
quote by Lara Flynn Boyle
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Gone flying
I am floating
Swimming through the air
Think and I can travel there
Exhilarating despair
I know I'm gone
I can never go back
All is lost
Everything I had
I can feel them crying for me
Asking why it had to be
Remembering the times we had
And all the things I never said
I know all now
poem by Christopher Flynn
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It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
quote by Errol Flynn
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It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
quote by Errol Flynn
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Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.
quote by Lara Flynn Boyle
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
quote by Lara Flynn Boyle
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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
quote by John T. Flynn
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You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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My father was never anti-anything in our house.
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Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
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I like my whisky old and my women young.
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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
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