Richard Dawkins - Lord Byron - Genesis 9:13 - Yip Harburg - D H Lawrence - The Wizard of Oz 1939 -
When we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion p14
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. Genesis 9:13
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby. Yip Harburg, song 1939
She saw in the rainbow the earth’s new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven. D H Lawrence, The Rainbow
I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more. We must be over the rainbow. The Wizard of Oz 1939 starring Judy Garland & Ray Bolger & Frank Morgan & Jack Haley & Bert Lahr & Billie Burke & Margaret Hamilton & Clara Blandick & Charley Grapewin & Terry the dog, director Victor Fleming, Dorothy