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Victor H. wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:

>> General-Zod wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>>>>> Early April in England, by Percy MacKaye
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Across the moist beam of the cloud-rimmed sun,
>>>>>>> The larks run up in ecstasies of Spring
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-april-in-england-percy-mackaye.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quite good.....

>>>>> I'm glad you liked it. Frankly, it was a last-minute substitution (I'd
>>>>> planned to use a poem by an author who already it turns out already had
>>>>> another poem slotted in this month.)

>>>>> If I'd had it on the list, I'd probably have used it Saturday and
>>>>> Oppenheim's on Sunday, as a segue to England, setting the scene for the
>>>>> Spenser poem.

>>>>> But, because it was short, I added a picture of a lark in flight, so it
>>>>> looks good where it is; and it does flow well enough into Oppenheim's poem.

>>>> I doubt anyone will argue over this obviously obscure poet.

>>> Yep, but he is fairly well known in Ohio.....

>>> *****************************************************************************

>>> Dedication of Ohio historical marker for Percy MacKaye and "The Poet's Shack"

>>> https://miamioh.edu/news/top-stories/2017/06/mackaye-marker.html

>>> ************************************

>
> A good read...

Agreed.