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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mar 28, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2D977742005D6A7C70000CAE538F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > I have previously said that in the song Wild Rover   
   > “The landlady’s eyes opened wide with delight.”   
   > could refer to the waxing (opening) of the new/dark   
   > moon (closed eye) to full moon (open eye).   
   >   
   > However that is only one eye.   
   >   
   > But tomorrow morning at 7:53 a.m. here in St. John’s,   
   > Newfoundland, due to a partial solar eclipse, the   
   > sun will be 85% covered, and you can consider the   
   > coming out of that as the opening of the other eye.   
   >   
   > The song Wild Rover is very important to me since   
   > it heavily influenced my Wild Rover Poe-M on or   
   > near Bloomsday of 1993, during my second waning   
   > crescent high, thus I hope for a return of sorts   
   > beginning tomorrow morning.   
      
   Well, it is still not full moon, so the moon eye is still opening. :-)   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;   
   This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;   
   Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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