Don't worry, it happens all the time, particularly with the irritating
format our system here uses for names - I'm surprised people don't address
me as (Hass). I'd just emailed our system manager to ask if there was any
way I could change my user name (or the way it appears on emails), but he
said it had to be that way round so the address book could be in surname
order. Your verse history is a tour de force - it only seemed to take you
about an hour. You ought to publish it.
And yes that would be my brother - Richard Francis is not quite such a
reversible name but it does get him mixed up with the horsey thriller writer
Dick. At one time he put an imaginary H in the middle, like the S. in Harry
S. Truman.
Best wishes
Matthew Francis
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From: William Herbert [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 31 March 2000 17:26
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Subject: Re: Verse Forms (oops)
Herbert Bill would sorry say like to
reminding him of Yoda still are you.
Brother your he even knows thinks he
Manchester from h.D. examined P
Writing Creative Lancaster at
feeling Bill is Herbert like a prat.
Pixies The lead singer from the swopped
his what names round, and that's now dropped
at me in mess look you askance is:
Apologies to Matthew Francis.
Dear Matthew,
Here comes the bauld stanzaic lore
that maks aa modernistics snore:
a man caad Sempill fur a splore
wrote 'Habbie Simson',
a piper's elegy -- and more:
oor bards saw crimson.
(That's bagpipes, by the wailin way --
whit is a tonedeef boy tae say?)
It's hauf-lament and hauf in play
that gees the twist:
a fact that in his morbid lay
auld Wordsworth missed.
But Allan Ramsay and young Rab
(Rab Fergusson) jist hud tae grab
it fur the Scots Revival. Rab
(that's Burns -- keep up!)
wha paid fur Fergusson's grave slab
wiz jist a pup.
"The Daft Days", "Caller Oysters", "To
the Tron-Kirk Bell" showed whit tae do:
Burns took the habbie til a new
heicht wi the likes
o his addresses tae a crew
o subtle tykes.
The Deil, a moose, a daisy, drink;
the haggis (whit wid veggies think?);
there's Death and Dr Hornbook's jinks
and Holy Willie;
a louse, his mare, his mates, mair drink,
and bein silly.
The habbie sometimes taks Burns' name
because ut's apt fur Burns-like games
but, Matthew, it wad be a shame
if that wiz aa:
the fitbaa needs nae player's fame,
sae pass the baa!
Best second go,
Bill
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