Robert Earl Hayden

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    Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering,
    first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Manners and Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “10 April 1800—
    Blacks rebellious. Crew uneasy. Our linguist says
    their moaning is a prayer for death,
    ours and their own.
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)