Wirtz Dam Granite Shoals until 1965 when it was renamed for another advocate of the LCRA, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Witz Dam and Lake LBJ are located due west of Lake Marble Falls and the city of Marble Falls, Texas. Wirtz Dam Wirtz Dam (formerly Granite Shoals Dam) was constructed from 1949 to 1951 to provide hydroelectric power and to form Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (formerly Lake Granite Shoals), one of the Texas Highland Lakes. Lake LBJ ‒ as it is more commonly referred to ‒ provides cooling water for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant along
One Word is Too Often Profaned One Word is Too Often Profaned <poem>ONE word is too often profaned One feeling too falsely disdain'd One hope is too like despair And pity from thee more dear I can give not what men call love; The worship the heart lifts above The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion to something afar </poem> "One Word Is Too Often Profaned" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1822 and published in 1824 (see 1822 in poetry). The poem was intended for Jane Williams. It expresses Shelley's deep and genuine devotion for her. Shelley met Jane