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|    Cujo DeSockpuppet to All    |
|    Re: Our friend William Henry Davies aske    |
|    31 Dec 25 21:30:00    |
      From: cujo@petitmorte.net              nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in       news:F-GdnXp2yP2JCcj0nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com:              111>> Will-Dockery wrote:       >>       >>> NancyGene wrote:       >>>       >>>> Will Dockery wrote:       >>>> nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene)       >>>> posted:       >>>>       >>>>> "Will-Dockery" wrote:       >>>>> NancyGene wrote:       >>>>>       >>>>> Christmas       >>>>> by W.H. Davies       >>>>>       >>>>> Christmas has come, let's eat and drink"       >>>>> This is no time to sit and think;       >>>>> Farewell to study, books and pen,       >>>>> And welcome to all kinds of men.       >>>>> Let all men now get rid of care,       >>>>> And what one has let others share;       >>>>> Then 'tis the same, no matter which       >>>>> Of us is poor, or which is rich.       >>>>> Let each man have enough this day,       >>>>> Since those that can are glad to pay;       >>>>> There's nothing now too rich or good       >>>>> For poor men, not the King's own food.       >>>>> Now like a singing bird my feet       >>>>> Touch earth, and I must drink and eat.       >>>>> Welcome to all men: I'll not care       >>>>> What any of my fellows wear;       >>>>> We'll not let cloth divide our souls,       >>>>> They'll swim stark naked in the bowls.       >>>>> Welcome, poor beggar: I'll not see       >>>>> That hand of yours dislodge a flea,"       >>>>> While you sit at my side and beg,       >>>>> Or right foot scratching your left leg.       >>>>> Farewell restraint: we will not now       >>>>> Measure the ale our brains allow,       >>>>> But drink as much as we can hold.       >>>>> We'll count no change when we spend gold;       >>>>> This is no time to save, but spend,       >>>>> To give for nothing, not to lend.       >>>>> Let foes make friends: let them forget       >>>>> The mischief-making dead that fret       >>>>> The living with complaint like this"       >>>>> "He wronged us once, hate him and his."       >>>>> Christmas has come; let every man       >>>>> Eat, drink, be merry all he can.       >>>>> Ale's my best mark, but if port wine       >>>>> Or whisky's yours"let it be mine;       >>>>> No matter what lies in the bowls,       >>>>> We'll make it rich with our own souls.       >>>>> Farewell to study, books and pen,       >>>>> And welcome to all kinds of men.       >>>>>       >>>>> William knows where you live, Will       >>>>>       >>>>       >>>>       >>>> The poet?       >>>>       >>>> George Dance posted the poem at 8:23 am that morning.       >>>>       >>>       >>>       >>> William Henry Davies, the subject of the thread. "Try to keep up,"       >>       >>       >> I am keeping up       >>       >> You claim to have communicated with William Henry Davies?       >>       >> By what, seance?       >       >       >       > The same way we keep in touch with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. If you       > have to ask, you would not understand anyway. (BTW, they both think       > that your poems are "unspeakable shit.")              Could you ask them the next time you communicate with them if they regard       Dreckster as a douchebag? I'll interpret their hysterical laugher as a       'yes'.              --       "Post-editing someone's statement before replying to it is a sure sign       that you have already lost the argument." - Little Willie Douchebag gets       another asskicking from Pendragon              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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