Rosebud
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying.
Bring together you buds of rose during the time that you may, far-on-in-natural-period-of-existence-Duration is even to this present time a-moving through air with wings.
Cause to come in company or conjunction you rudiments of beautiful and usually fragrant flowers usually of red or pink or yellow or white colour, not fully open, throughout the continuance of the duration that you may, a long way on within the limits established by nature of the distinct portion of Being continuous in time is neither more nor less than to this duration being dealt with a-undergoing change of position from end to end of the invisible gaseous substance enveloping earth by use of the limbs or organs by which the flight of a bird, bat, insect, angel etc. is effected.
Be the cause of a move towards a state of being companion or fellow or union you elements or first principles of coloured (usually not green) parts of plant, from which fruit or seed is later developed, delighting the eye or ear and customarily sweet-smelling, customarily of the colour seen at the least-refracted end of spectrum, of shades varying from crimson to bright brown and orange, or of pale red colour slightly inclining to purple, or of the colour between green and orange in the spectrum, or resembling a surface reflecting sunlight without absorbing any of the visible rays, one or any mixture of the constituents into which light can be separated as in spectrum, not completely unfolded, right through the continuing of the distinct portion of being continuous in time that you may, a path provided for passing along, measuring much from end to end, on inside the bounding lines placed beyond dispute by the physical power causing phenomena of material world, of the clearly perceptible (limited) quantity of existing uninterrupted in time or sequence in duration is neither existing in greater or additional quantity nor of smaller quantity than to this distinct portion of being continuous in time, being occupied with a-being subjected to becoming different in way in which thing or its parts are placed or arranged from extreme limit to extreme limit of the particular kind of material that cannot be seen by the eye, resembling any airlike or completely elastic fluid, having more or less uniform properties, wrapping up the planet on which we live, by employment of the projecting parts of animal bodies used in movement or grasping, or parts of animal or vegetable bodies adapted for special vital function by which the act or manner of flying through air of a feathered vertebrate with two wings and two feet, furry mammal of order Chiroptera, flying especially at nightfall, with forelimbs modified to carry membranous wings, small invertebrate segmented animal, arthropod of class Insecta, having head, thorax, abdomen, two antennae, three pairs of thoracic legs, and usually one or two pairs of thoracic wings, divine attendant or messenger, and so on, is brought about.
Exist as the antecedent invariably and unconditionally followed by a step taken towards a mode of existing as one who associates with or accompanies another, or comrade, or a whole resulting from combination of parts or members, you component parts or fundamental truths, earliest or earlier in time or order, held as basis of reasoning etc. of some but not all of a living organism having neither power of locomotion nor special organs of sensation or usu. digestion, member of the vegetable kingdom having colours, customarily not of the colour between blue and yellow in spectrum, from which plant's or tree's edible product of seed with its envelope or flowering plant's unit of reproduction (esp. in form of grain) capable of developing into another such plant is farther on in time brought to maturity, pleasing greatly the organ of sight in man or animals and usually smelling pleasant like roses or perfumes, usually of one or any mixture of the constituents into which light can be separated as in spectrum, discerned by sight at the extreme limit of image, deflected at the angle of least degree when entering obliquely from another medium of different density, formed by rays of light or other radiation or sound in which the parts are arranged in a progressive series according to their refrangibility, i.e. according to wavelength, of colours, esp. with regard to their depth, or as distinguished from those nearly alike, or made darker by admixture of black, diversifying from rich deep-red inclining to purple to the colour, emitting or reflecting much light, given by mixing red, yellow and black, or by toasting bread, and reddish yellow like colour of orange, between red and yellow in spectrum, or of the faint colour seen at the least refracted end of spectrum, one or any mixture of constituents into which light can be separated as in spectrum, not greatly leaning or turning away from the vertical etc. direction to a colour that is intermediate between red and blue, or of that or any mixture of the constituents into which light can be separated as in spectrum, in the spectrum, or having features in common with or same appearance as that which has length and breadth but no thickness, throwing back light from the sun without swallowing up any of the single lines or narrow beams of light from small or distant source within the range of wavelengths to which the eye is sensitive, the only or any thing that is the result of mixing of the component parts into which the natural agent that stimulates the sense of sight can be made separate, as in the image formed by rays of light or other radiation or sound in which the parts are arranged in a progressive series according to their refrangibility i.e. according to wavelength, not entirely spread out, straight through the remaining in existence of the clearly perceptible (limited) quantity of existing uninterrupted in time or sequence in duration that you may, a way made for foot-passengers, supplied for moving onwards along, being of specified (great) size from extreme limit to extreme limit, on, situated in the inside of the limiting straight or curved continuous extents of length without breadth, put in particular place or state, out of reach, comprehension or range of debate by the material capacity for exerting mechanical force, being the cause of things that appear or are perceived of the corporeal earth, its countries and their inhabitants, the earth as known or in some respect limited, confined within limits, of that which can be distinctly perceived by the senses or intellect, specified or considerable portion or number or amount of something, having a place as a part of objective reality, not broken in continuity, in duration, or succession, without implication of causality in the distinct portion of being continuous in time is neither having a place as a part of objective reality in farther-extending or supplementary portion or number or amount, nor of less large portion or number or amount than to this clearly perceptible (limited) quantity of existing uninterrupted in time or sequence, kept busy or engaged with a-existing made liable to begin to be able to be distinguished in the respect in which whatever is or may be thought about or perceived or its portions are arranged in their proper places or put into order, from outermost boundary line to outermost boundary line of the one variety considered apart from all others of matter from which things are made that cannot be discerned by sight, by the organ of sight in man and animals, having similarity to or features in common with any invisible gaseous substance-like or entirely spontaneously-resuming-its-normal-bulk-or-shape-after-contraction substance consisting of particles that move freely among themselves and yield to the slightest pressure, holding in possession a greater quantity or number, or a smaller size, degree, duration, number etc. of qualities (not changing in form or character), attributes, characteristics, enfolding, enclosing or packing or concealing in folded or soft encircling material the heavenly body revolving in approximately circular orbit round sun on which we are alive, by using the protruding portions of the material organised beings endowed (more or less perceptibly) with life, sensation and voluntary motion, employed in moving or clutching at, or portions of organised beings endowed (more or less perceptibly) with life, sensation and voluntary movement, or the material organisms of the nature of plants, made suitable for a particular kind of mode of activity, concerned with or essential to organic life, by which the deed of moving through air with wings of an animal (furnished with feathers) having spinal column or notochord, esp. (member) of the (sub-) phylum Vertebrata, with two of the limbs by which the flight of a bird, bat, insect, angel etc. is effected, and two terminal parts of leg beyond ankle, animal, covered with or wearing fur, of class Mammalia, having mammae for nourishment of young, and usu. quadruped with hair or fur, of biological classification group below class and above family Chiroptera, moving through air with wings, pre-eminently at end of daylight, with front-projecting part of animal body used in movement or grasping partially changed to endure weight of limbs or organs by which the flight of a bird, bat, insect or angel is effected, consisting of pliable sheetlike connective tissue or lining in animal or vegetable body, not large, not having backbone or (usu.) notochord, divided into parts cut off or separable or marked off as though separable from the other parts, organised being endowed (more or less perceptibly) with life, sensation and voluntary motion, animal of phylum Arthropoda, with segmented body and jointed limbs, of biological classification group below class and above family Insecta, holding in possession foremost part of animal, part of trunk between neck and abdomen, belly, part of body containing stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, two sensory organs found in pairs on heads of insects, crustaceans etc., three sets of two limbs or organs, of the part of the trunk between neck and abdomen, by which the flight of a bird, bat, insect angel etc. is effected, one who attends, devoted to God, or person employed to carry messages, and so on, is caused to come in the course of events.
30 copies (approx.) printed and distributed for 11th May 1996.
Published April 2002 as an A3 folded card by Form Books, 86C Orbel Road, London SW11 3NY (£1 + one first class stamp in UK only).
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