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   Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:   
   > Will Dockery  wrote in   
   > news:1771365231-3274@newsgrouper.org:   
   >> nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) posted:   
   >>> George J. Dance wrote:   
   > >> NancyGene wrote:   
   >   
   > >> February   
   > >> by Ina D. Coolbrith (born Josephine Donna Smith)   
   > >>   
   > >> Newly wedded, and happy quite,   
   > >> Careless alike of wind and weather,   
   > >> Two wee birds, from a merry flight,   
   > >> Swing in the tree-top, sing together:   
   > >> Love to them, in the wintry hour,   
   > >> Summer and sunshine, bud and flower!   
   > >> So, belovéd, when skies are sad,   
   > >> Love can render their sombre golden;   
   > >> Turn the winter to summer glad,   
   > >> Make of the weary heart a holden   
   > >> For the sunshine, and the flowers that bloom,   
   > >> Even in February’s gloom.   
   > >>   
   > >> Note that this is not "Ida," of the Columbus postcard fame.   
   > >>   
   > >> We see that George Jealous Dunce stole this poem from us and   
   > >> posted it as his own.  He is so covetous.   
   > >>   
   > >> Really? What we see is that HarryLiar's NastyGoon is getting to be   
   > >> as big a liar as he is. It must be infectious.   
   > >>   
   > >> For the record:   
   > >> First, I found the poem in Coolbrith's 1891 book, Songs of the   
   > >> Golden Gate. The poem on the blog is identical to the one in that   
   > >> book. Second, I put Coolbrith's name on it, not my "own".   
   > >> Third, I did not use the version NastyGoon posted;   
   > >> some of the lines are different. So let's ask:   
   > >>   
   > >> NastyGoon, where did you get that version of "February" that you   
   > >> posted?   
   > >>   
   > >> We got it from Ina Coolbrith.  However, we see on p. 670 of our copy   
   > >> of "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine" (1883) that one of the   
   > >> words is different in that first published version from what is   
   > >> printed in later versions.  There, it is "shadow golden" instead of   
   > >> "sombre" or in some cases "somber."   
   > >>   
   > >> We still posted it first.   
   > >>   
   > >> Again, the timestamps show that the poem was first posted in George J.   
   > >> Dance's PPB poetry blog.   
   > >   
   > > Where's your   
   proof?   
      
   See above.   
      
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