[Magdalen] Prayers ANSWERED: missing, beloved dog is found!

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 2/18/16 9:12 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> Minful of:
>
> A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
> The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;
> Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
> And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
>
> (I bet Sib can or at least could recite the whole thing, as i could once
> upon a time)

Sorry, never could, though I have read it, of course, and the others.  I 
deliberately memorized a lot of sonnets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and 
Shakespeare, and could have recited them,  and folk songs to sing them, 
but those long jingles never quite stuck in whole.  The sonnets are 
mostly gone, except "How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways"-- I had 
to run that over in my head to be certain I still have it, and the rest 
are just first or last lines, if that.  I had a lot of psalms, too, but 
the Episcopal Church messed me up some with those, with the Prayer Book 
translations and every Sunday, and I'm not sure I can even do the 23rd 
word perfect in either version, from having my rhythm messed up on so 
many Sundays.


-- 
Sibyl Smirl
I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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