From: cujo@petitmorte.net
Will Dockery wrote in
news:1771397157-3274@newsgrouper.org:
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> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:
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>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>> georgedance04@yahoo-dot-ca.no-spam.invalid (George J. Dance) posted:
>>>> NancyGene wrote:
>> >>> George J. Dance wrote:
>> >>>> NancyGene wrote:
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>> >> 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."
>> >>
>> >> BZZT! The poem in the Century Magazine is identical to the one in
>> >> The Golden Gate and on PPB.
>> >>
>> >> A thought of thee, and the day is glad
>> >> As a rose in the dewy dawn unfolden;
>> >> And away, away, on passionate wings,
>> >> My heart like a bird at thy window sings!
>> >>
>> >> So again, I'll ask where your four lines came from?
>> >>
>> >> They're actually quite bad . What is "a holden"? A holder, just
>> >> misspelled for the rhyme?
>> >>
>> >> The lines are so bad that I'd suspect you wrote them yourself; but
>> >> then again, if you'd tried to rewrite that part of the poem you'd
>> >> probably have come up with:
>> >>
>> >> Turn the winter to summer glad,
>> >> Make of our yesterdays a holden
>> >> Like read newspapers or flowers that bloom,
>> >> That stack up in piles in a gloomy room.
>> >>
>> >> This is a response to the post seen at:
>> >> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=701548819#701548819
>>
>> > As Kevin Fries pointed out tonight, NancyGene is troll, after all.
>>
>> Kevin never said any such thing.
>
> Wrong, Kevin Fries absolutely wrote just that, earlier last evening.
>
> Kevin Fries stated that NancyGene is "just trolling" me.
Not quite, lying Douchebag.
"NG helped you find your spine? She trolled you, you still don't have
one."
Lie more, Dreckster.
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"The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to
you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're
functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -
Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon
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