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  2. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died - Wikipedia

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    The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,– and then There interposed a fly,

  3. The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) - Wikipedia

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    The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight ...

  4. Stillness in Motion: Vai Live in L.A. - Wikipedia

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    Stillness in Motion: Vai Live in L.A. is a live album by American virtuoso guitarist Steve Vai, released on 7 April 2015, on the Sony Music Entertainment and Legacy Recordings labels. The album features a recording of a performance by Vai in October 2012 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles , which was part of the Story of Light world tour; it was the ...

  5. The Storm Before the Calm - Wikipedia

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    The Storm Before the Calm (stylized in all lowercase) is the tenth (and eighth international) studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released June 17, 2022, via Epiphany Music and Thirty Tigers, [2] as well as by RCA Records in Europe. Described as a meditation album, the ambient project was co-written with and ...

  6. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War [4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second ...

  7. A Stillness at Appomattox - Wikipedia

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    A Stillness at Appomattox is a history of the American Civil War that recounts the final year. [1] Some of Catton's extensive work describes the Battle of the Wilderness, [2] the assault of the Mule Shoe at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, [3] the Battle of Cold Harbor, [4] the Battle of the Crater [5] and the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse.

  8. Hegelochus (actor) - Wikipedia

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    Hegelochus acted in the play Orestes by Euripides when it was performed in the City Dionysia dramatic festival in 408 BC. He was playing the title role of Orestes. In line 279 of the play, instead of "after the storm I see again a calm sea" ( γαλήν' ὁρῶ, galḗn' horô ), Hegelochus recited "after the storm I see again a weasel ...

  9. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Wikipedia

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    The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. Still through the cloven skies they come With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world; Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hovering wing, And ever o'er its Babel-sounds The blessed angels sing. But with the woes of sin and strife