[PW] Poem by Mrs Felicia Hemans

[Shari Haber]

Hmm. My dad used to quote it as "The boy stood on the burning deck, His 
pants were all afire.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carolyn Scheer" <scenic3 at real.more.net>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [PW] Poem by Mrs Felicia Hemans


> Turn-of-the-century parlor music and recitation poetry tended to be
> pretty much a matter of life or death -- I can still hear my mother
> stirringly reciting "The boy stood on the burning deck, whence all
> but he had fled......"
>
> --- Carolyn, who got some really strange looks unloading those
> ghastly new Baker & Taylor packing boxes at the local recyclers with
> "When the bullet hits the bone" blasting out of the minivan.
>
>
> At 02:42 PM 6/8/2007, you wrote:
>>Hemans seems to have been a real barrel of laughs.  She has 76 hits at
>>the Lester Levy Sheet Music site, including "I Go, Sweet Friends" --
>>which captures the same idea as your song.  Most of the rest are 
>>pretty
>>gloomy, too.
>>
>>-- Tom, who'd rather listen to "From the Indies to the Andes in his
>>Undies"
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