Jack Watson War
speaker
512 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Jack Watson War’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A new tanket of wine to rekindle the mirth of the lords?
No.
It is redder than wine and costlier.
It is the ghastly bleeding head of John the Baptist.
Its locks dabbled in gore.
It's eyes set in the death stare.
The distress of the last agony in the features.
That fascinating form that just now swayed so gracefully in the dance, bends over the horrid burden without a shudder.
She gloats over the blood.
And just as the maid of your household goes, bearing out on a tray the empty glasses of the evening's entertainment, so she carried out on a platter the dissevered head of that good man.
While all the banqueters shouted and thought it a grand joke.
that in such a brief and easy way they have freed themselves in such a plain spoken, troublesome minister.
What could be more innocent than a birthday festival?
All the kings from the time of Pharaoh had celebrated such days, but
And why not Herod?
It was right that the palace should be lighted.
And that the cymbal should clap, and that the royal guest should go to a banquet.
But before the rioting, and Wassail at Close the End of the Day, every pure nature revolts.
Behold the work, the influence and the end of an infamous dancer.
I am, by natural temperament and religious theory, utterly opposed to the position of those who are horrified at every demonstration of mirth and playfulness in social life, and who seem to think that everything, decent and immortal, depends upon the style in which people carry their feet.
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