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On 2022-03-20 9:26 p.m., George J. Dance wrote:
On 2022-03-20 5:04 p.m., Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
March, by A.E. Housman
[...]
So braver notes the storm-cock sings
To start the rusted wheel of things,
And brutes in field and brutes in pen
Leap that the world goes round again.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/03/march-ae-housman.html
Who was that who used to post here...?
Dale Housman...?
Dale Houstman.
Houstman's also a Brit, but there any similarity ends.
We can talk about Housman some other time, since he's on the blog often;
he's definitely one of my go-to poets.
I would like to say that why this poem is here. It's from his first
book, which is a year's series of poems from /The Shropshire Lad/, which
is a year's series of poems from the POV of the title character. The
Shropshire Lad's an English country boy, just like Spenser's 2 shepherds
in the poem that follows right after, but 300 years later; and it was interesting to see how his thoughts parallel theirs: "shepheards boyes,
taking occasion of the season, beginne to make purpose of love, and
other pleasaunce which to springtime is most agreeable." Some things
never change.
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