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On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 6:53:32 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> On 2022-07-31 5:08 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
> > George J. Dance wrote:
> >
> >> On 2022-07-31 2:13 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
> >>> George J. Dance wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> >>>> July, by Robert F. Skillings
> >>>
> >>>> A very pleasant mo[n]th is this
> >>>>      To be in a country town.
> >>>> The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
> >>>> [...]
> >>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "Pleasant mouth"?
> >>>
> >>> A typo or a Edmund Spenser style spelling?
> >
> >> Heh! I'd say it's a typo, though it is an interesting image, when
> >> combined with "kiss" in L3. So I've changed it to "month" on the blog,
> >> and changed it everywhere it's promoted on the web.
> >
> >> Sadly, while it's probably a typo, it's on all the online copies I've
> >> seen -- I've looked at 3, and had to make decide which one to use (as
> >> they vary in whether or not they indent the lines). Yet all of them
> >> have "mouth". And I think I understand why. I must have read the poem
> >> 6 times, and each time I read "month" -- and I expect that everyone
> >> else who put it on their site did the same.
> >
> >> The other problem was that there's no authoritative source for the
> >> text online, just websites that appear to have simply c&p'd each
> >> other. I suspect that it's from one of the two anthologies Skillings's
> >> son says he had poems published in, but I haven't been able to find
> >> either. If it was typed in from a print book, that could explain the
> >> appearance of the "mouth."
> >
> >> Thanks for bringing that to my attention here. There is a silver
> >> lining, when I or a reader catches an error like that: unlike the run
> >> of the mill poetry site, it gets corrected. So I'd say, provisionally,
> >> that unlike those other sites, PPB is a place to find a correct
> >> version of the poem.
> >
> > Again, it does seem to be a typo, and should be corrected, until further
> > information surfaces.
> By luck, I was able to find the original publication. It's in this book,
> on this page (bottom left-hand corner).
>
> https://archive.org/details/localnationalpoe00herr/page/746/mode/2up
>
> It looks like a vanity press, and the type is small, but it can be blown
> up online, and it definitely says 'month'.
>
> That also led me to the source of the typo. It was made by the OCR
> scanner in the "Full Text" version of the poem, which just as definitely
> says 'mouth'.
>
> https://archive.org/stream/localnationalpoe00herr/localnationalpoe00herr_djvu.txt
>
> (You'll have to scroll down to the page. The easiest way is to Ctrl+F
> for "Skillings" - it takes just 2 clicks.)

Cool poem and back story as well.....