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21/04/2019 6:16 am
21/04/2019 7:27 am
I'm happy to say that I am; here in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. My beer is chilled though.
21/04/2019 7:52 am
Oh to be in England
is a poem by Robert Browning in his book of verse "Home Thoughts from Abroad"
21/04/2019 8:41 am
Ken, you're just a jump ahead of me.
Home-Thoughts, From Abroad by Robert Browning
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England - now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops - at the bent
spray's edge -
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song
twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower
- Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
But here in the gentle Appalachian mountains of western North Carolina, spring is bringing a lot of rain. . . 5 inches day before yesterday. But today the sun is shining, it's in the 60's, and the azaleas are in full bloom.
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21/04/2019 9:19 am
David, sorry to have jumped ahead of you, it's nice to know poetry is still being enjoyed in this world of instant hi-tech
21/04/2019 9:36 am
Ken, perhaps it's the day. The forum and the Lounge are filled with flowers, good thoughts, a hint of music, and now poetry. Think it could have something to do with the season?
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21/04/2019 11:30 am
I’m impressed with your poetic knowledge of the Mother Country David!
21/04/2019 12:12 pm
Sounds like our day...in Tampa Bay.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
21/04/2019 12:54 pm
84 in mid Mississippi and not a cloud in the sky. Our Azaleas bloomed three weeks ago and I just finished cleaning up after the second major storm in a week and a half.
22/04/2019 11:28 am
I confess to looking it up, Mike, even though I did have a start. I like the Lake poets, too.