“Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1782  by Robert Burns . It is well known as a traditional  children's song, with the words put to the melody of  the Scottish Minstrel Common' Frae The Town. 

"A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on  traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title "Oh, My  Love is Like a Red, Red Rose", "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" or  "Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem.

The title of the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger comes from the poem's name. Holden Caulfield,  the protagonist, misinterprets a part of this poem to mean " if a body catch a body" rather than "if a body meet a body."

 "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."by James Madison.

“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.” by Samuel Yllman in Youth.

New words and phrases

hat-check room 衣帽间           stir  搅拌

insomnia   失眠症        amemia  贫血症

shoot foul    罚球           democracy  民主，民主主义

bureaucracy  官僚主义    theocracy   神权政体

segregate   使隔离       hermitic     密封的，与外界隔绝的

infamous   臭名昭著的，无耻的