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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: PPB: A Song to the New Year / Barry    
   06 Jan 26 16:05:52   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   georgedance04@yahoo-dot-ca.no-spam.invalid (George J. Dance) posted:   
      
   > "Will Dockery" wrote:   
   >> georgedance04@yahoo-dot-ca.no-spam.invalid (George J. Dance) posted:   
   >   
   > > Sunday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:   
   > > A Song to the New Year, by Barry Cornwall   
   > >   
   > > Hark!   
   > > The Old Year is gone!   
   > > And the young New Year is coming!   
   > > Through minutes, and days, and unknown skies,   
   > > My soul on her forward journey flies   
   > > [...]   
   > >   
   > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-song-to-new-year   
   barry-cornwall.html   
   >   
   > This is an interesting poet, his real name was Bryan Procter:   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Procter   
   >   
   > Yes, Bryan Waller Procter. (Note how easy it would be to misspell his name.)   
   I don't know   
   > why he adopted the "Barry Cornwall" pen name, but I use it as it's PPP   
   policy to default to   
   > the name the writer published under.   
   >   
   > BTW, PPP does not use the Wikipedia article on him (we use the /DNB/), so   
   I'll give our   
   > link as well: https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Barry_Cornwall   
      
   Thanks again for the back story.   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=700100975#700100975   
      
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