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Random poem: Poems (Van Vorst)/Slumber Song
SLUMBER SONG
(The White Elf Mother sings.)
When the low flying wind, awake.
Brushes the lilies, and the low
Blue flowers hidden in the brake,—
When the sighing Alders bend and shake,—
Brushes the lilies, and the low
Blue flowers hidden in the brake,—
When the sighing Alders bend and shake,—
When the owl 's whirring,—Hush thee, dear!
For all the elfin lights aglow
Will guide the slumber fairies here,
Naught is stirring
For my child to fear.
For all the elfin lights aglow
Will guide the slumber fairies here,
Naught is stirring
For my child to fear.
When the strange sighing tree-tops sing,
Dance all the fairies to and fro
And white dreams from their mantles fling,
While the flying
Winds thy cradle swing.
Dance all the fairies to and fro
And white dreams from their mantles fling,
While the flying
Winds thy cradle swing.
When the low crooning insects cry
Creep the white elves soft, and slow,
Hush thee, Sweet! and hear the merry
Pipes a-tuning
For thy lullaby!
Creep the white elves soft, and slow,
Hush thee, Sweet! and hear the merry
Pipes a-tuning
For thy lullaby!
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Works
[edit]Thoughts
[edit]Some random and debatable thoughts of mine[1], if you've got time to lose[2].
- Here, the ultimate goal of technological optimization is to proofread without reading. Most of the human input is unnecessary, and we can go much faster without it.[3].
- We have a problem with documentation. We have some help pages, sure, but nearly no one actively takes care of those[4], and there are many things that should be in there. The /doc subpages of templates are in most case good, but they're hard to find. We have a great lot of them, a nice help page that doesn't cover a lot of them and a category tree that is quite puzzling. Quite a lot of templates are in categories that make them hard to find[5]. I am neither the first[6], nor the second, and not the third either[7] to think we have a documentation issue. There have apparently been a number of attempts to fix this already, and they've more or less all dwindled to nothing.
- We should not choose works for notability or usefulness, as they are both very relative. I personally choose the works I do because why not[8].
Notes
[edit]- ↑ with an absurd quantity of footnotes for not really necessary information. I am usually more of a parentheses user, but refs clutter the text less, even though it's a bit awkward
- ↑ and you probably do, if you landed here
- ↑ it is a bit ridiculous that I am taking time that I could have spent proofreading to write on how precious time is
- ↑ and despite my complaining about it most of the time I don't either
- ↑ e.g. {{ppoem}} in Category:Experimental templates
- ↑ and that was in 2012
- ↑ even now
- ↑ and maybe an unreasonable liking of running gags