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All in the Downs the fleet was moored,
The streamers waving in the wind,
When black-eyed Susan came aboard.


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'Twas when the seas were roaring
With hollow blasts of wind,
A damsel lay deploring,
All on a rock reclined.


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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

John Gay

John Gay
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Born: June 30, 1685
Died: December 4, 1732 (aged 47)
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