No grudging admiration here. My admiration for Hardy is total and unbounded. Jon Corelis wrote: > The phrase "grudging admiration" comes to mind. Behind the apparently > greeting-card verse is a trenchant analysis of the most important > thing to have happened to the human race since the spresd of > agriculture. > > -- Tad Richards http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ http://opusforty.blogspot.com/ The moral is this: in American verse, The better you are, the pay is worse. --Corey Ford