Eugene Buckley / Arthur Fields And Peerless Quartette - Would You Rather Be A Colonel With An Eagle On Your Shoulder Or A Private With A Chicken On Your Knee? / I Ain't Got Weary Yet! flac album

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The young eagle grew up with all the other chickens and whatever they did, the eagle did too. He thought he was a chicken, just like them. Since the chickens could only fly for a short distance, the eagle also learnt to fly a short distance. You may have been brought up in a situation that limited your understanding of your potential, but it’s time now for the past to lose its hold on you. Don’t die thinking you’re a chicken. Soar high, just as you were meant to. Be all that you are meant to be! Previous post – Some Day Never Comes. Next post – Have a Coffee First.

Rather is not an adverb of degree in this sentence. Here it is serving as something of a cross between an adverb and a conjunction. The speaker is reformulating the notion about the tour as expressed by the implied first speaker (that it was a success). Rather can be moved: "They were all out for 150, there are two broken shoulders, there have been allegations of offensive behaviour off-pitch and the forthcoming tour to Pakistan is in jeopardy. You say the tour was a success but I would say it was rather a disaster