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   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > georgedance04@yahoo-dot-ca.no-spam.invalid (George J. Dance) posted:   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   > She posted a different version of the poem from the one on Dunce's blaaargh,   
   so she obviously didn't get it from him.   
      
   So it's just a coincidence that both poems were listed here on the same day?   
      
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