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At random: "I saw the submariners, the way they stood aloof and silent, watching their pigboat with loving eyes. They are alone in the Navy. I admired the PT boys. And I often wondered how the aviators had the courage to go out day after day and I forgave their boasting. But the submariners! In the entire fleet they stand apart!” -- James Michener

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Corabelle

Posted 2009-06-28 10:02 AM (#28093)

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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.

Cora

steamboat

Posted 2009-06-28 10:31 AM (#28094 - in reply to #28093)

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Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: Poetry

Cora, that sounds like the definition of a sailor (back in the day).
Steamboat sends

Roy Ator

Posted 2009-06-28 10:38 AM (#28096 - in reply to #28093)

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Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas

Subject: RE: Poetry

--Eugene Field

Corabelle

Posted 2009-06-28 12:53 PM (#28099 - in reply to #28096)

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Subject: Thanks, Roy...

I was thinking it was Eugene O'Neill.

Cora

Stoops

Posted 2009-06-28 1:58 PM (#28103 - in reply to #28099)

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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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