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On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 3:06:09 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 7:38:44 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote: 
> > On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 7:19:31 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote: 
> > > On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 5:30:21 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote: 
> > > > On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 5:02:24 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: 
> > > > > On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 4:22:19 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote: 
> > > > > > On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 4:02:23 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: 
> > > > > > > George J. Dance wrote: 
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> > > > > > > >> On Monday, August 2, 2021 at 6:57:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote: 
> > > > > > > >>> On Sunday, August 1, 2021 at 3:41:28 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote: 
> > > > > > > >> 
> > > > > > > >>> > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog: 
> > > > > > > >>> > The New Cricket-Ground, by Edward Cracroft Lefroy 
> > > > > > > >>> > 
> > > > > > > >>> > The loveliness of Earth is still unspent: 
> > > > > > > >>> > Her beauties, singly known, combined are strange: 
> > > > > > > >>> > And with what fondness she doth freshly range 
> > > > > > > >>> > Her ancient gems for man's new ravishment 
> > > > > > > >>> > [...] 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-new-cricket-ground-loveliness-of.html 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > >>> Love this one... 
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> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > I love having readers who check out my poems, and readers who appreciate them even more. So it's win-win. 
> > > > > > > >> 
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > This wasn't my first choice for a Lefroy poem - I had one called "The Race" I was going to use (maybe in 2024), but the first line of this caught my eye. It looked to me like that line uses one from a more famous sonnet, which also goes: "The (1-2-3) of earth is (1-2-3)" 
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> > > > > > > > - and the titles of the two sonnets forms a pun, really. 
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> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > So I'd like to throw that out as a challenge to the group, or at least the part of it that reads my posts - can anyone name the other, more famous sonnet? 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I know, but I'll give the others a little more time to answer... and the poem is already here, in our archives. 
> > > > > > > Okay. I suppose nobody else is going to respond to your question... I repost the poem you refer to shortly. 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > In other words, going once... going twice... 
> > > > > > Maybe Zod will have a go on it, when he gets back onto the group. And I don't know if anyone else has even read down the thread; so hold off on that. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > You don't have to post it for me here; I'm sure you've got it. But you can tell me on f/b, if you want to prove it. 
> > > > > Sorry, already bumped it. 
> > > > That works. Zod or whomever else wants can still guess the answer here, before looking for it. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > The Keats thread seems to be of historical value to the group, but I haven't read through it yet. 
> > > > Your mention of Keats tells me you got it right, and is an extra clue for anyone else. 
> > > This is a cool version... 
> > > 
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_H1QMXohI 
> > 
> > Congratulations on getting the poem, and yes, that is a nice version. She's got a nice voice, like an art singer but without all the vocal mannerisms that scream "look at me." I have a spoken version of Keats's sonnet embedded on the blog now, but I may swap it out for Natalie Oak's.
> Still haven't had a chance to watch this video, bumping to the top to help book mark it.

I've embedded it on the blog (replacing the spoken version I had), so it's easy to find:
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-grasshopper-and-cricket-john-keats.html