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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2561
Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: Poetry
This is not Robert Service. It's another well-known (if I could only think of his name) children book's writer. I'll remember later;
Here goes:
He is not drunk, who from the floor
Can rise and drink some more.
But he is drunk, who prostrate lies
And cannot drink, and cannot rise.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Poetry
Cora, that sounds like the definition of a sailor (back in the day).
Steamboat sends |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 892
Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas | Subject: RE: Poetry
--Eugene Field |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2561
Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: Thanks, Roy...
I was thinking it was Eugene O'Neill.
Cora |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: He is not drunk,.....
I used to have a book of toasts and drinking poems.....back when I should not have been imbibing....wish I knew the name of the book and how to get it.....
one poem i remember started the horse lives for 30 years and never tastes of wines or beers.....
then it went on to justify drinking for longer life! (tongue in cheek) |
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