God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

‘You don't see them figs nowhere else up here. And it didn't get here by accident neither. Them old people planted her beside the springs in a sheltered place against the rocks hundreds of years back.’

I've watched the summer evenings pass by / I've heard the rattle in my bronchi.

I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry.