A Conversation for Sheep, by Edward Edwin Foot
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Vip Started conversation Feb 16, 2017
That is one of the worst poems I have ever read. Your footnotes saved it. Without them I would have given up by... well, about three lines in, I think. 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Feb 16, 2017
Ah, then my aim has been met. 
The purpose of the footnotes is to make it actually possible for the casual reader to survive the awfulness of our ancestors' idea of literature. 
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SashaQ - happysad Posted Feb 16, 2017
Footnotes 3 and 4 are superb! 
The Foot Footnotes are very dry - strange how he chooses to expand on the mention of fields, but doesn't spell out what 'videst means I like the "knitted jacket for the body", though, as opposed to the "knitted jacket for the clothes horse" or somesuch!
It started off quite well, with a pleasing rhythm to it, but the repetition of 'various' made me groan, and now the poem is just talking about all the different colours of wool Seed catalogue indeed!
Nasturtiums do tend to multiply in the garden, so I can give him that, but the final verses are a long wander away from the topic...
I am thankful for the animals that 'vide me food 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Feb 16, 2017
Someone should read this poem into whatever the British equivalent of the Congressional Record is. It's really rather touching...
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