“Es lächelt der See, er ladet zum Bade,
Der Knabe schlief ein am grünen Gestade,
Da hört er ein Klingen,
Wie Flöten so süß,
Wie Stimmen der Engel
Im Paradies.”

(Fr. von Schiller in Fischerknabe)
Eupen (B)

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“Now, there’s a certain thing
That I learned from Jim
That he’d always make sure I’d understand
And that is that there’s a certain way
That a man must swim …”

(Bob Dylan in Open the door, Homer)
Liège (B)

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“When you’re feeling like expressing your affection
For someone night and day,
Take up the ‘phone and ask for your connection,
We’ll give it right away.
Eve or Adam, anyone you ask for
We’ll find somehow.”

(B. Britten in the song “When you’re feeling like expressing your affection”)
Grâce-Hollogne (B)

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“The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Here or There, as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss’d you down into the Field,
He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!”

(E. Fitzgerald in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition)
Villers-le-Bouillet (B)

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