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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Aug 19, 2021, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.26CE07F70036CBFB70000A08338F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > Newfoundland celtic rock band Figgy Duff, on their album   
   > After the Tempest, recorded Honour, Riches (song from   
   > The Tempest, sung by Pamela Morgan).   
   >   
   > The song from the Tempest goes:   
   >   
   > Honour, riches, marriage blessing   
   > Long continuance and increasing   
   > Hourly joys be still upon you   
   > Juno sings her blessings on you   
   >   
   > Earth's increase foison plenty   
   > Barns and garners never empty   
   > Vines with clustering bunches growing   
   > Plants with goodly burden bowing   
   >   
   > Spring come to you at the farthest   
   > At the very end of harvest   
   > Scarcity and want shall shun you   
   > Ceres blessing so is on you   
   >   
   > though it will have to be slow increasing.   
      
   and it will have to be compatible marriage, including   
   no one-way attraction.   
      
   > Also I   
   > think my copy of the Collected Works of Shakespeare   
   > might have “in the very end of harvest”.   
   >   
   > Also with all the floods and drought and wildfires   
   > and plagues of insects the last two verses are   
   > less certain, depending on what we do. But perhaps   
   > there can be a volcanic eruption which would cool   
   > the planet for a few years, buying us a bit of time.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “‘You could lay down your head by a sweet river bed/But Sonny   
   always remembers what it was his Mama said” (Ron Hynes)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)