From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   Will Dockery  wrote in   
   news:1771617992-3274@newsgrouper.org:   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   Are you really this fucking stupid?   
      
   PS: Don't answer.   
      
      
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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." -   
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