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   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > Will-Dockery wrote:   
   >> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>> Will-Dockery wrote:   
   > >>> Karla wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>> In this little urn is laid   
   > >>>>>> Prudence Baldwin, once my maid,   
   > >>>>>> From whose happy spark here let   
   > >>>>>> Spring the purple violet.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Robert Herrick   
   > >>>   
   > >>>>> Nice little tribute, makes me think of one of my favorite Beatles   
   songs, "Dear Prudence."   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>> Poor Mr. Herrick is turning in his grave over that remark.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Have you ever come across a poem that *didn't* remind you of a 1960s   
   rock song?   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I'm not too far off from this guy, Frank Hudson, who envisioned Robert   
   Herrick in a blues mode:   
   > >>>   
   > >>> https://frankhudson.org/2020/04/30/corinna-corinna-lets-go-a-maying/   
   > >>   
   > >> Harry Lime: Two dumbasses only double the dumbassery.   
   > >>   
   > >> Dockery: Or, as us often the case, you just don't "get it."   
   > >>   
   > >> Here's the opening line of the article by Frank Hudson:   
   > >>   
   > >> "Robert Herrick wrote in the awkward 17th and 18th century era in English   
   poetry where if you aren’t Milton you get tabbed in the minor poet folder."   
   > >>   
   > >> Here's the opening line of Wikipedia's bio on him:   
   > >>   
   > >> "Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 " buried 15 October 1674) was a   
   17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric."   
   > >>   
   > >> Hmm... what's wrong with this picture?   
   >   
   > 1591 - 1674 would be the 16th and 17th centuries; not the 17th and 18th.   
      
   Okay, I wasn't paying attention to that.   
      
   Thanks for pointing that out, perhaps you can correct the Wikipedia page?   
      
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