Dan Hicks, a longtime Bay Area music figure and the lead singer of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, passed away Saturday at the age of 74

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    1. Bravo for the acute accent on wingèd. Can't resist quoting a chunk:

      Now therefore, while the youthful hue
      Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
      And while thy willing soul transpires
      At every pore with instant fires,
      Now let us sport us while we may;
      And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
      Rather at once our time devour,
      Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
      Let us roll all our strength, and all
      Our sweetness, up into one ball;
      And tear our pleasures with rough strife
      Thorough the iron gates of life.
      Thus, though we cannot make our sun
      Stand still, yet we will make him run.

      1. I really wish I'd read it by the time I was 17. I'm sure it would have swayed Margaret Perkins more than I did on my own.

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