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    Down came the hairy talons
    and horrible poison blade
    And none of the garden noticed
    that fizzing, hopeless fight.
    Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
    Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 30:18-19.

    From the oracle of Agur, son of Jakeh.

    Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 2:10.