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Date: | Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:13:38 -0700 |
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John, That was "Barbara Fritchie," with the old grey head. John
Masefield's was "The Old Man and the Sea."
"Friends, Romans, country men, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar,
not to praise him. The good men do is oft intered with their bones, but
the evil they do lives after them." Willie Shakespeare. I never thought
of that as a poem, but I guess it could be.
At 3:06 PM -0500 10/13/06, John Callan AIA wrote:
>Ah! I loved the Jabberwacky, but that was not on the approved list.
>(Sort of like architecture school "precidents" I was always attracted
>to the wrong list). I believe I did something about shooting some
>old gray head but sparing your country's flag.... she said? Or was
>it a boy on a burning deck? In Jr. High it was Friends Romans
>etc.... I remember them well. (Not the romans.)
>
>-jc
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