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shazzPRME Posted Dec 13, 2001
Ironically...
This is the one I had lined up for my next poser... I think you may get it rather fast!
'The glebe cow drooled. Till God cried, "No;
It's gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be"
shazz 
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Beth Posted Dec 13, 2001
Strangly enough I too have been perusing Thomas Hardy this week and had chanced upon Weathers. I did not, however, read the second verse that contains the Vogon line -
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,
Shazz's lines come from Channel Firing, I think.
Hull, I am so glad that you are yourself again. 
I am all out of time. Have to finish packing and catch that plane.
I should be on line at the new location in a week or so - in case I'm not Happy Christmas to all.
Beth 
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shazzPRME Posted Dec 13, 2001
Hi Beth 
You are correct of course! I shall have to delve deeper into obscurity I think!
Have a great holiday and a very happy Christmas! 
shazz
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 13, 2001
Happy Christmas Beth
Hull
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 13, 2001
What a lot of inrellectual activity while I was safely 
The poem -'tis Channel Firing by y'man. Enough to make God cry out!
Next poser:
In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
Male 'n English again. Not one I would class as Vogon. Sorry, most of my poetry collection's downstairs - and there are lots of female poets down there - honestly!
Hull
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 13, 2001
Oops. Sorry Beth, didn't see you'd got there first
But you didn't pose another (understandable in the circumstances), so I'll leave my verse there for people to guess.
Hope you're back online soon - I obviously need your inspiration!
Hull
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shazzPRME Posted Dec 13, 2001
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
I believe that this poem inspired the foundation of the UK 'Poppy Day'... very moving and relevant today.
Right... here's a more enigmatic one for you:
Let the priest in surplice white
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.
16th century... dead famous!
shazz
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shazzPRME Posted Dec 13, 2001
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
I believe that this poem inspired the foundation of the UK 'Poppy Day'... very moving and relevant today.
Right... here's a more enigmatic one for you:
Let the priest in surplice white
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.
16th century... dead famous!
shazz
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 13, 2001
Curses!
you were s'posed to think it was Rupert Brooke or Wilfred Owen or somebody
An' now you hit us with a really hard one. I thought it might be Donne at first, then recognised it as Shakespeare. One of his Long Obscure poems methinks.......The Phoenix and the Turtle?
Hull
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shazzPRME Posted Dec 13, 2001
Correct again my friend
I am sure there is much more to the poem than at first meets the eye... but then I have a dirty mind! 
shazz
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 13, 2001
Dirty mind? Don't understand that. Best not to explain though, as I'm probably too pure to understand even if you told me and I got to see it before it was Modded into Space.
Hull(a good idea is an idea worth copying
)
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 13, 2001
My turn. This is by someone really good, reputed to be the best poet working today by some. Was nearly Poet Laureate but wasn't offered it in the end because of her blameless but non-family-values non New Labour Image lifestyle. From Selling Manhattan 1987 or Selected Poems 1994.
Balancing me with your hand up my back, listening
to the voice you gave me croaking for truth, you keep me at it. Your lips don't move, but your eyes look
desperate as hell. Ask me something difficult.
Hull
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 13, 2001
Hints:
1. The title is 'The Dummy"
2. She has two 'First' names and the first of these is Carol.
Can you work out who she is?
Hul
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 14, 2001
Carol Ann Duffy. Ten points down for me for obscurity.
Hull
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shazzPRME Posted Dec 14, 2001
Sorry Hull, my friend... been offline quite a bit today, my friend in the USA had some serious problems which I wanted to help with and I have been trying to finish my uni project so, all in all, it has been a busy day! 
Set another and I'll try to solve it within 24 hours
shazz
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The Artist formerly known as Hullabaloo Posted Dec 14, 2001
OK shazz
And Tibley if you're around -
Male, non-English.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
Much less obscure, methinks. This poet was capable of outrageous vogonisms, but in obscure poems, which it wouldn't be fair to pose. This is a marvellous, well-known poem.
Hull
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Tibley Bobley Posted Dec 15, 2001
Sorry to have disappeared. I've been grabbed by the dark forces of Christmas and dragged off on nightmare shopping expeditions 
That there poem is 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' by William Butler Yeats.
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shazzPRME Posted Dec 15, 2001
'The Lake Isle of Inisfree' by WB Yeats, usually remembered as:
That one which starts 'I must arise and go now'
Good choice Hull
'Curious Laura chose to linger
Wondering at each merchant man.
One had a cat's face,
One whisked a tail,
One tramped at a rat's pace,
One crawled like a snail,
One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry,
One like a ratel tumbled hurry-scurry.'
Female 19th century
shazz
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Tibley Bobley Posted Dec 15, 2001
Oh, it's my turn. I must go and dig through my books. Back shortly
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